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As the development of science, many convenient kitchen aids and processing of foods were invented. Those allowed people preparing foods within a short time gave more rest time to modern people. People also prefer buying pre-cooked food to fresh food because those reason mentioned before. However, I believe that prepared food do not always good aspect when we consider the people’s health and financial area in home. First, the nutritive value of prepared foods is not as high as fresh food, moreover, low freshness than fresh foods. Almost of prepared food are cooked at least more once before they take another process of wrapping. Such a processing occurs to break of nutrient of ingredient and loses food’s freshness. Also prepared foods are easy to expose to be spoil or infection by bacteria due to long distribute process from food plant to customer. For example, few months ago a company recalled their products, hamburger patty and cheese, which are founded salmonella contamination. This germ can outbreak of food poisoning among customers who eat their products. So the prepared foods could be a harmful factor for health with these reasons. Second, the price of prepared foods is higher than fresh foods. Eventually they charge their products at least 3 times higher than low ingredients. Because the price contains of the utility, the cost of transport, labor fee, media advertisement and operating charges. Moreover such food company charges the expense of risk; lose of stock, to customers. This causes the increase of price of products; therefore, customers should pay more money and the portion of grocery expenses of a family will rise. | |