Japan

Today in home economics, we have been learning different things about Japan and what they do about / with their food.  In Japan, they have got a much higher densely populated country comparing to to New Zealand. In Japan they have a population of about 126 million with 347 people per square Km but here in New Zealand it is only 15 people per square Km. 

The packaging in Japan is very colorful and their food come in small portions. This give people more variety in what they eat. Chankonabe is the main food that is eaten by sumo wrestlers. This food gives them all of the necessary vitamins, proteins and nutrient needed for their weight gain and energy for training.  

One of the main 5 islands is called Okinawa and they have a very high life expectancy of 83.7 and they also have people living longer there than anywhere else in the world.

An interesting fact I have learnt is the fact that japan is more densely populated than New Zealand by such a large margin. 

Questions for you:

Can you name three different types of rice?

How do they grow rice on hills?

What is the healthiest type of rice? 

Week 3 Blog Questions

• how has food changed in the last 100 years and what have been the big reasons for this change? Food has changed in New Zealand so much over the past 100 years. 100 years ago, there was minimal variety in savory items, there were lots of vegetables and now if you compare it to this time period we have things like fast food, KFC, McDonalds exc... there are loads of sugary items and things to buy, there is so much more variety in food and options.

• what could you see happening to food in another 50 years time More variety and more accessibility to items to make you own crations. i think that New Zealand food has changed so much in the past 100 years and i think it is going to continue doing that for a long time.
• what could you invent or change that would create a large impact on how we gather, produce or eat food. I would invent a now type or storage that after the items like vegetables have been picked they can still be stored in a refrigerated area that could keep them fresh for longer so when we buy them from the shops they are more premium quality.

Home Economics

So today we made a potato salad. So we were told to make a blog post saying what hygiene steps we took before during and after the practical. So before i washed my hand wiped down my working bench and then washed all the vegetables. During we used different knifes and cutting bored to stop cross contamination and after we washed all of our dishes and wiped down our bench again.

Our food had the texture of a potato salad. and the colour was mostly white with mustard in it.