Observation.

Unhealthy Favourite Food
 We have interviewed the students in our class, what they like to eat the most in the school canteen and why. We also held a class poll to see which food they favoured the most. Here are the results of our survey:

THE QUESTIONNAIRE

• The question were:

1. Do they eat in the school canteen?

This chart represents the answers that the students gave to us.

• Two questions were:

1. Do you often eat fried food in the canteen?
2. Do you know what is the effects towards your health by eating fried food?

What people answered to our interview.

Name: Nadhrissa Iman Fauzi Age:    15 years old No. Yes, of course I do.

Name: Iman Nur Arysha Age:    15 years old Sometimes. Yes.

Name: Nor Azzrai Age: 15 years old No. Yes, but did not know much about it.

Name: Nurul Ain Kamarul Ariffin Age:    15 years old Sometimes. Yes, my cousin experienced it.

Name: Muhd Syafik Age:    15 years old Rarely. Yes, of course I do.

Name: Nurin Amalia Age:    15 years old No. Yes, of course I do.

Name: Mas Athirah Age:    15 years old No. Yes.

Name: Zahirah Yasmin Age:    15 years old Rarely. Yes, of course I do.

• The percentage of type of food the students usually eat in the school canteen.

Yes and as you can see, the students in our class prefer oily fatty foods than healthy fresh fruits as their breakfast and lunch at school. 

This bad habit should stop as the oil that the canteen cooks in our school use are not of good quality. We have interviewed some of the school community for this project. Most of them usually use cheap oil that they buy from the night market. If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear this. Almost all of them REUSE their oil. They took the oil that they have used before and they use them again but to cook a different type of food.

Reused oil only adds to the dangers of oily food. Recent researches have proven that reusing vegetable oils can cause atherosclerosis, stroke, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and liver diseases. This is because a toxin called 4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal (HNE) forms when oils like canola, corn, soybean and sunflower oils are reheated.

In the table below are the pictures and content of some of the food that they sell in the canteen.

HASH BROWNS. Hash browns or hashed browns are a simple potato preparation in which potato pieces are pan-fried after being shredded, julienne or diced. One form of hash browns involves diced potato scraps from commercial French fry production, formed into patties using potato starch and vegetable oil, and the frozen.

FRENCH FRIES. Main ingredients: Potatoes and oil. French-fried potatoes are batons of deep-fried potato.

NUGGETS Chicken nuggets are made of various parts of the chicken. Most nuggets are made from the rib meat in the chicken. A chicken nugget is a chicken product molded from meat slurry, breaded, then deep-fried or baked. Fast food restaurants typically fry their nuggets in vegetable oil, such as coconut oil.

Clearly humans need to eat, so the demand is certainly there. The factors people say are most important to them in making food choices, include: price, taste, convenience, and access. These are exactly those factors that companies selling the unhealthiest foods seek to exploit. In contrast, too often healthier foods cost more, are less convenient, are not readily available, and have the perception of being less tasty. Therefore, the major food companies (along with government agencies) have made it almost impossible for people to demand any alternatives. Put another way, imagine if we started from scratch: if we wanted to design a system that ensured that people had access to the cheapest, least expensive, most convenient foods, would we at the same time create a system that destroys the planet, drives up health care costs, harms animals and exploits human labor?