Food Provenance

• Food provenance


  The origin of foods, where food comes from
• It's not always easy for consumers to know exactly where food comes from so food traceability is important
• Foods consumers prioritise


  • Poultry
  • Red meat
  • Eggs
  • Fish
  • Shellfish
  • Dairy products
  • Fruit
  • Vegetables
• Food traceability


  Having access to information about where food comes from and assurances that food is safe to consume
• Sustainability


  A way of producing and consuming food that protects the economy and the environment
• Food provenance


  • Identifies the origin of produce
  • Increases food knowledge
  • Maintains food culture
  • Develops a more sustainable food system
  • Improves animal welfare
  • Protects the environment
  • Increases food traceability
  • Enables consumers to engage with producers directly
  • Assists consumers in eating a more seasonal diet
  • Allows consumers to choose specific products
• Crop production


  1. Preparing soil

  2. Sowing seeds/seedlings

  3. Watering

  4. Fertilising

  5. Weeding

  6. Protection from pests

  7. Harvesting

  8. Separation and inspection

  9. Storage
• Intensive farming


  • Large scale operation that prioritises profitability and efficiency
  • Use of machinery
  • Use of chemical fertilisers
• Organic farming


  • Focuses on producing food in ways that minimise harm to the environment
  • No artificial fertilisers or pesticides
  • Free-range animals
• Intensive farming


  • High-yield crops
  • Mechanised agriculture
• Organic farming


  • Crop rotation linked to seasons
  • Use of green manure and composting to enrich soil
  • Hand weeding and natural pest control
  • Animals given space to move freely
• Fishing


  1. Dredging

  2. Trawling

  3. Pots and creels

  4. Line caught
• Sustainability is an environmental issue associated with fish due to the consequences of overfishing. Sustainable fishing practices are designed to maintain fish stocks and establish a healthy marine ecosystem
• Aquaculture


  The farming of fish in cages, pens, tanks or pods
• Fish farmed through aquaculture


  • Salmon
  • Trout
  • Cod
• Shellfish farmed through aquaculture

  • Mussels
• Examples of foods that are reared

  • Steak, beef, veal
  • lamb
  • mutton
  • poultry
  • bacon, pork, ham
  • game
• Examples of foods that are grown

  • potatoes
  • cereals
  • herbs
  • oil seed
• Foods that are caught

  • fish
  • oysters
  • octopus
  • shellfish
• Oily Fish

  • Fresh tuna
  • mackerel
  • salmon
  • trout
• White Fish

  • cod
  • haddock
  • plaice
  • sea bass
• Shellfish

  • crab
  • prawns
  • mussels
  • scallops
• Dredging

  Dragging metal framed nets with rakes attached through the sea bed to release shellfish e.g mussels
• Trawling 


  drawing a net towed by a trawler around a school of fish e.g tuna
• Pots and Creels 


  baited with fish and placed on the sea bed to be collected later e.g crab
• Line Caught 


  large or small scale, using baited hooks e.g mackerel