Advantages of CAD and CAM:
- Saves a lot of time through multi-tasking simultaneously.
- Can produce identical, multiple products quickly.
- Increases safety as it reduces the need for workers to complete dangerous tasks.
- Computers are used which result in less staff to be paid wages.
- Monitors production system i.e. controls the temperature.
- Standardises production system so the process time can be repeated with precision and accuracy.
Disadvantages of CAD and CAM:
- The high cost in purchasing expensive equipment.
- The amount of time needed to spend in order to install the machinery and to train staff.
- Machines could break down which causes whole production to stop whilst it is being fixed.
- Large machines = Large Premises.
- Less home made products would be available.
Aim – To visit many different websites to research on the topic of Healthy Food and more.
Conclusion – I visited websites from Jamie Oliver and BBC Food to help me find information on healthy food and labelling.
I received this information from www.bbc.co.uk/food.
Label logic?
The supermarket shelves are stacked with supposedly 'healthier' alternatives to the foods we can't resist. Too often, we let ourselves be fooled into thinking we're making 'healthy' choices. After all, if it's dressed up to look scrumptious and leads us to believe we can have something a little bit naughty and get away with it, it must be better. But 'better' than what?
Manufacturers are responding to health experts' and shoppers' concerns and have been removing trans-fats from and reducing salt levels in some processed foods. However, there's still nothing to stop them giving the misleading impression that their foods are healthier than they really are.
Fresh is best
Often foods marketed at slimmers are not very nutritious. One so-called 'slimming' chicken and sweet corn flavour packet soup mix contained no sweet corn and only one per cent chicken, water and glucose syrup being the first two ingredients. Okay, so it's less than 60 calories a serving but where's the goodness in it?
The healthiest food you can buy probably doesn't come with a label. Fresh ingredients won't list their nutrients, additives (or absence of) or boast that they're good for you. But if you buy organic broccoli from a farmers' market you know that it has been grown without pesticides and that it's packed with nutrients. It might even have been picked that very morning.