Sci-Soc: Food BenchMark Q2
1/2 large avocado or a whole small avocado, chopped
2 hard boiled eggs, diced
olive oil
preparation
Bring a large pot of water to a boil, drop your cod in let it boil for about 10 mins and then change the water. Repeat this step 3 times, changing the water each time.
During the last boil add your eggs. boil for about 7 minutes, transfer to a bowl with some of the hot water and let it sit about another 5 minutes or until ready to peel and dice.
Sweat onions into a hot skillet with 2 Tbs of olive oil. Cook the onion until they just begin to get opaque, do not cook them through, you want to maintain a bit of a crunch.
Drain cod fish. Combine, onions, cod fish, eggs and avocado in a large bowl. Drizzle with 3 Tbs of olive oil and toss, breaking up cod fish.
Served over a bed of white rice. Keep the olive oil handy in case you want an extra drizzle.
Analysis-
Analysis- Continued
Approximately what percent of the meal is processed vs. whole food?
Eggs- whole food
Cod Fish- Processed
Olive Oil- Processed
Onions- Whole food
Avocado- Whole food
Health/nutrition:
Use the nutritional info on the label to estimate the caloric content, sugar content, fat content, etc.
Reflection:
What is your role in the larger food system?
My role in the food system is to dictate what needs to be mass-produced. If I buy a lot of one product the need for that product increases. Such as during ‘Food Inc.’ when the need for one product increase, manufacturers ramp up the form of production. If more people began changing that way they eat, or how it is produced then the food industries would have no choice but to change.
What do you see as the biggest problems with our food system, and why? The problem with our food system is how food is made and the type of changes it has made on the human digestive system. When you add higher amount of sugar or salt to the human diet it changes how humans function
What are some changes you could make to your food choices?
When Mr. Best read from the book about health, there was a part that said do not eat anything that has more than five ingredients, or even just not eating products that have ingredients that you can not pronounce.
What would be the impact of these changes?
There would be less mass-produced foods mainly due to the fact that they have thousands of ingredients and many of them are sugar, salt, or acid related.
Are you willing to make these changes?
It this stage of my life, I do not have to means to make such a decision, if in the future I have more money or an easier why of getting to an organic market that I would change, but going into college I don’t have the capability to promise such a change
Egg- 63 Calories, 4g Fat, 186mg Cholesterol, 6g Protein
Un-washed Cod Fish (2.oz)- 60 Calories, 0.5g Fat, 30mg Cholesterol, 3720mg Sodium (is reduced when washed), 15g Protein
Olive Oil (1 tbsp)- 119 Calories, 14g Fat
Onion (sliced)- 46 Calories, 5mg Sodium, 11g Carbohydrates, 1g Protein
Avocado (1 cup)- 240 Calories, 22g Fat, 11mg Sodium, 13g Carbohydrates, 3g Protein
It will easily digest it, and use the vitamins and other nutrients with in the meal. Your stomach take out the various vitamins and proteins to help your body, then as it passes through your system, a great deal of the salt is also taken out. You would gain high blood pressure from overexposure sodium, and fat.
Environmental:
What state/country do you think your ingredients came from?
Eggs- USA
Cod Fish- Canada
Olive Oil- Italy
Onions- USA
Avocado- Mexico
Which food traveled the farthest? Olive Oil
How many total miles did your meal travel? 8012 Miles, all together
Was it organically grown (not as much fertilizer/pesticide/fossil fuel) or commercially grown?
Eggs- commercially grown
Cod Fish- commercially grown
Olive Oil- organic
Onions- organic
Avocado- organic
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