food Marketing - Technology 2/2024

Ingredients
How to make High Fat Foods Healthier
with Fat Layers and Marbling
by Jennifer Zamanifar
Epidemiological data show a strong
relationship between dietary fat intake
and body weight, blood cholesterol
levels, cardiovascular disease,
and some cancers. High fat intakes
are habitually accompanied by increased
saturated fat, cholesterol and
energy density.
At a time when unhealthy eating habits
and obesity are causing problems
for both adults and children, choosing
a diet with fewer sweet and fatty
foods could be a battle at any age but
is especially challenging for children.
The more important it should be for
the food industry to support a healthy
lifestyle. To reduce dietary fat consumption
of an average individual, it
is important to identify factors that
influence their food choices. A major
determinant of food selection is the
degree of liking of the foods. Raynor
et al. (2004) suggested that liking, especially
for high-fat foods, is a stronger
predictor of dietary fat intake than
the availability of high- and low-fat
products in the home. High-fat foods
in this study were defined mainly as
meat products, cheeses, butter &
margarine, ice cream and salty snack
with fat contents more than 50%, lowfat
foods were mostly vegetables and
fruits, cereals and products made out
of it. The author stated that a greater
liking of high fat foods, regardless of
environmental controls varying the
availability of high- and low-fat foods
in the household, is associated with
greater fat intake.
Thus he suggested interventions designed
to reduce dietary fat intake
should target changing the liking of
high-fat foods means to reduce the
liking and increase the liking of lowfat
foods, because only if individuals
living in a household containing many
low-fat relative to high-fat foods leads
to low-fat intake if these individuals
have a greater liking for low-fat foods.
But what if we can do low-fat foods
such as delicious as high-fat foods?
Should this not be the target of any
food producing corporation?
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14 food Marketing & Technology • April 2024