Ready to eat food has eaten away the market of fast food.
Ready to eat food has eaten away the market of fast food.
Introduction
Ready to eat food is the modern culture growing up now-a-days; the most popular trend of the era, not only amongst the youngsters but a comfortable edible pattern for all age group. With the abrupt popping-in of this ready to eat stuff, the fast food which had been the hot favourite with the children and the youngsters have found a tough competition. The industry is now split between the marketing of the packed ready to eat meals and the fast food items. Children, youngsters, middle-aged or aged people, everyone is flowing away with the pace of the world, enjoying the various delicacies and cuisines from every corner of the world. Having so many foodies around, let us check how far the ready to eat meals have impacted the fast food industry.
Yes
- Ready to eat food has more nutrition content as compared to the fast foods. The ready to eat meals include the traditionally cooked food items packed and marketed.
- The food items being cooked and packed just requires some heating prior to eating, so it is definitely less time consuming.
- These ready to eat items are branded and they are expected to be hygienically prepared and stored.
- No skill is required expect knowing how to use the micro wave or boil water
- There is plenty of variety available in this segment, and they are easy to carry.
- The taste of dish by a brand would be consistent in all its packets, hence once you like an item from a particular brand you can expect the same taste again on your next purchase/consumption.
- Can be stored for reasonably long time at home, hence stocking is possible
No
- They cannot replace the flavour of hand cooked food, as each packet of ready to eat would have the same taste- there is no variation.
- These items usually contain preservatives and as the item is stored over longer period of time there is a chance of adverse health effects
- Fast food is more popular among children and youngsters.
- Usually more delicious then ready to eat food
- Available in abundance, with orders taken on call, person and online.
- Usually served within 5 minutes and can be eaten within 5 minutes
- Generally fast food does not need side dishes as required in case of ready to eat food i.e burger, veg sandwich, noodles etc...
Conclusion
While fast food is tasty and popular among children and youngsters, they have higher potential for giving rise to health issues and do not usually contain nutrition required in our diet. Ready to eat food is a better alternative which takes less time to prepare and has better nutrition & hygiene as compared to fast food.
Discussion
- RE: Ready to eat food has eaten away the market of fast food. -mounika.R (08/08/14)
- hello everyone, i too accept that fast food and ready to eat food are two different parts of food industries. before the invention of ready to eat packets people has bugged in those fast foods which did a lot of harm to their healths. and with the invention of ready to cook packets the extent has somewhat decreased. people started to consume ready to eat rather than fastfoods. and if to talk about these ready to cook packets it has its own advantages and disadvantages too. the first main advantage is people who live their life in a hurried manner who are not able to manage for cooking and doing other house-hold activities and going for their respective job this ready to cook option is very helpful. and another advantage is children whose parents works restlessly and reaches home at late nights for those this will be really a helping hand because it is so easy to prepare even children can cook. but consuming it daily can be a problem to health because the preservatives added in it to store for a long time can harm our health. but handling it in a proper way can be helpful
- RE: Ready to eat food has eaten away the market of fast food. -Teena Bhatia (08/07/14)
- It is not relevant to compare the two different types of industries who have got different set of customers. Ready to eat food and fast food are two different parts of food industry. They have got the different set of customers. At one end where fast food is considered for change, ready to eat food makes an important part of people’s lives.
Whenever people are bugged up from their daily routine or want to have something different from the normal course they want to have fast food. It is a form of change from the usual daily food. People don’t prefer to have fast food daily. Even if some people want to eat the fast food daily, they cannot have it at both the times, lunch and dinner.
Ready to eat food is the substitute for the daily food. The present day life is getting more and more hectic. The working people don’t find the time to cook. They prefer to have the ready to eat food packets at home so that whenever they are struggling with time, they can use the ready to eat foods. It is becoming a need for the people. This is the main difference between the fast food and the ready to eat food. Fast food can never become the need of a household but with changing time ready to eat food is becoming the necessity in people’s lives.
The other major differentiating point is the healthy nutrients. Fast foods are hardly nutritious whereas the ready to eat food are healthy substitutes over regular food. So, saying that Ready to eat food has eaten away the market of fast food is irrelevant.
