Food Systems: Production, Processing, Distribution, Consumption

Food Systems: Production, Processing, Distribution, Consumption

How does the food we eat get to our plates?

What is this?

What are these?

Critical Thinking

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Potato Transformation

Potato Flow Chart

Food JourneyFoodshed Watershed

Foodshed Vocabulary

Consumption

The act of eating or drinking

something 

Foodshed Vocabulary

Processing

A series of operations  performed in the 

making or treatment of a product. 

Foodshed Vocabulary

Distribution

The movement of goods from the source to

the final customer,

consumer or user.

Foodshed Vocabulary

Production

The process of growing and harvesting

products for sale.

Let’s Watch a VideoFarm to Fork

Potato Flow ChartProducti

on

Processing

Distribution

Consumption

Foodshed SituationsCorn to Corn

ChipsLettuce to a

SaladCarrots to a Carrot Stick

Tomato to Tomato Sauce

Venison to Jerky

Potato to French Fries

Strawberries to

Strawberry Jam

Corn to Corn Relish

Tomatoes to Tomato Soup

Peppers to Salsa

Apple to Apple Cider

Beef to Hamburger

Foodshed Steps

Starting with your food, list all of the stops

on the foodshed

journey that food takes.

Then write the foodshed word defining that stop of the

journey.

Tomato’s cooked and mashed into sauce and then canned

Tomato sauce put on trucks and driven to grocery stores

Tomato’s grown on a farm

Tomato’s picked and harvested

Tomato sauce cans are stocked on the shelves of grocery store

Tomato sauce used for spaghetti Final Food

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

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Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

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Food Situation_____

Foodshed Steps

Starting with your food, list all of the stops

on the foodshed

journey that food takes.

Then write the foodshed word defining that stop of the

journey.

Final Food

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Production Processing

DistributionConsumption

Food Situation_____

Polite BiteRules:

1. Take at least one bite2. Only say polite things

How does the food we eat get to our plates?

Critical ThinkingWhat similarities are there in our

Foodshed Steps?

What are some factors that can make a foodshed longer or shorter?

What are some differences in our Foodshed Steps?

ChallengeThe next time you eat, think about it