Question

What is food?

What is the purpose of food?

Develop a psychological argument for the significiance of food and how it goes beyond satisfying ones hunger

Answer 1

Food is the basic need in Maslow's theory. Food is consumed in order to survived. Purpose of food is to serve nutrition.

Thanks for posting this question as I am totally a food lover and would like to express my views over it. Nowadays food is taking more form than rather satisfying hunger. We can see that esp in functions or marriages, food counts alot. For eg wedding of rich class may have variety of food compared to lower or middle class.

Another perspective of food is it provides pleasure to.mind. this is the reason why many fast food centres, concepts not food trucks, hamburger, pizza have come up which is esp. popular among the young generation. The more one eat junk food the modern he is. Food porn or food photography is the concept which is totally in air. People click photos of food in restaurants or tasty food such as cake etc made at home and post on Facebook, what app etc.

Many people are today successful in their food business just because of this social networking websites. They post photo, mention details and start getting orders

Earlier there were only food recipes show on Television. But today there are competition which are very popular such as Master Chef Australia. There are many channelsnwhixh are specifically related only to food such as good food, food network etc.

Food has developed all the way popular concept than before.