FOOD SOURCES

Food Sources



Food Sources

List all of the components of two of your meals

Oranges, Banans, coffee, Lamb, tomatoes

List each component's country of origin

Food

Source

Oranges

Washington

Banans

Latin America

Coffee

Latin America, East Africa, Arabia and Asia

Lamb

New Zealand

Tomatoes

Spain

Very little food in the UK actually comes from local sources. Many trips made to provide food that is out of season in the UK. Even the food from the UK may have been hundreds of kilometers of roads.

Meal 1: Oranges, Banans, coffee, Starwberries

Sources Oranges

Washington are the most important navel variety. Newer varieties of EPS constantly being introduced but not labeled for consumers. Such species include Becks, Tule Gold, Atwood, Fukumoto and Lane Late, as well as older Skaggs Bonanza.

Seville oranges are exported from Spain to Britain, where they are used almost exclusively for making marmalade. Some Seville oranges grown in Florida.

Jaffas, also known as oranges SHAMOUTI, an important Mediterranean orange mostly associated with Israel, and aromatic and pleasant sweet.

Blood oranges, so called because of the pigment that gives the flesh a deep red color reminiscent of blood, have a rich orange flavor with strawberry and raspberry Notes. Orange sea of blood has a rounded shape and Tarocco more elongated. Both are slightly less acidic than other varieties. (Shiva 2000)

Bananas

Almost all bananas consumed in the UK, came from Latin America. Britain plays a huge role in the economies of these countries are paying billions of dollars on those bananas. Costa Rica and Venezuela remained as the main suppliers of bananas to the UK, with Colombia, making a huge task to move to these two. Mexico has declined significantly in their banana exports to the UK, as their total exports declined, and they shift their attention to other directions. Honduras has a fairly sharp drop in the past few years, and Panama nearly tripled its sales in the UK. Banana market is steadily growing, and per capita consumption from 1987 to 1997 grew by about twelve percent. Bananas make about one percent of all supermarket sales. One publication, recent trends, even claimed that 94% of British households buy bananas, compared with the paltry 80% for apples and 70% for grapes. Bananas are even the most profitable fruit, contributing to two per cent of net profit of the supermarket! If you will not be shown to be toxic or bananas, can be carcinogenic, the banana industry will continue to grow as population growth, and profits will be, especially in the UK.

Coffee

Coffee was hardly known in Europe until the seventeenth century. European travelers who visited the Middle Eastern countries are now likely to visit a cafe, where business is transacted, or seen street peddlers holding coffee coffee sold in copper pots. (Smith 2007)

Most arabica coffee beans originate from either Latin America, East Africa, Arabia and Asia. Robusta beans are grown in West and Central Africa, Southeast Asia, and to some extent in Brazil. Beans from different countries or regions usually can be distinguished from the differences in taste, aroma, body, or ...