Ready-to-Eat Food
Choosing something to eat is something we do every day. We may choose to prepare and cook our meals ourselves and we may choose not to. There are situations when a visit to a restaurant is preferred to cooking. There are also situations when take-away and ready meals are the best solutions to fulfill our needs and wants. READY-TO-EAT FOOD Food is becoming a significant culture marker due to various lifestyle changes such as greater media attention, more eating out and wider exposure to foreign cuisines. This brings a change in consumers buying behaviour especially in terms of food consumed. Supermarkets nowadays stock packages for the microwave oven frozen foods, and pre-prepared, complete chilled dishes- that our grandparents would have marvelled at, and these packages permit meals representing most of the cuisines of the world to be eaten at home. These pre-prepared pre-cooked food are termed as ready meals that are considered as the “ultimate processed foods” with very h