As Baruch College is located in the center of the Flatiron/ Gramercy district of the city and surrounded by diverse food choices, our project focuses on the correlations between food choices of Baruch College students and three factors – money, perceived health, and time. An online survey was anonymously answered by seventy participants. Factors including frequented restaurants, perceived healthiness of the restaurant, time spent to arrive at the restaurant, average amount spent on a meal at the restaurant, age, and employment were analyzed. Our results conclude that working students were much more likely to purchase mid-range food, defined as at least $10, than their non- working counterparts. On average, working students spent $1.60 more on lunch. Working students also frequented healthier establishments despite negligible difference in perceived health. Additionally, males were more likely to frequent unhealthy establishments while females frequented the healthier restaurants. Surprisingly, there was no difference in perceived health effects between the two genders. Establishments were given a score between 1 and 3, 3 being the healthiest based on factors such as amount of green in the menu, sugar content, etc. As per our hypothesis, there is a definite correlation between food choices and factors such as employment, time, and perceived health. Due to the small sample size in relation to the entire Baruch population, the accuracy of our results may be distorted. Results may also have been skewed as there was no established measure of “typicalness,” i.e., must have eaten at least twenty times.
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/seminar3posters/files/gravity_forms/1-f14ea90e75361cb91bd42582a860ee01/2014/12/Peixoto_Group-1-Poster.pdf
Michele Bradley, Shujat Khan, Alec Nimaroff, Amy (SiJia) You, Helen (Hanxiao) Yue
Pablo Peixoto, Jeremy Greenfield
Baruch College
Food, Health
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