convenience foods will become increasingly prevalent and eventually replace traditional foods and traditional methods of food preparation. to what extent do you agree or disagree?

Since the advent of mechanization and processing techniques developed during the

time

around the Industrial Revolution, our

food

has become increasingly removed and modified from its natural state. Despite

this

trend, I would argue in

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essay that it is impossible to exclude traditional cuisine from our daily life and

traditional

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way of eating will become more valuable to

masses

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.   It is

undoubtable

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undoubtedly

that convenient

foods

have become widely popular especially among

working class

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people, teenage children, sharing rooms etc, because of their convenience. They are often prepared or packaged before being consumed and can be used at any

time

, quickly and easily by thawing or heating the

food

, which can reduce preparation and waiting

time

to a great extent.

Besides

, convenient

foods

are designed to be cheap, tasty and non-perishable as the ingredients added into these packaged products contain high levels of sugars and fats.

However

, eating packaged

foods

for a long period of

time

can increase

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the possibility of having health problems, like malnutrition, diabetes and heart disease.   Traditional

foods

instead

are those eaten by people over the longer course of civilization, they contain the highest levels of nutrition available for our wellness because they are grown or produced using sustainable methods which maintain nutrient content and exclude chemicals and other dangerous substances which have been found to diminish nutritional value. On a larger scale,

food

is an important part of

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. Traditional cuisine is passed down from one generation to the

next

. It

also

operates as an expression of cultural identity. Many of us associate

food

from our childhood with warm feelings and good memories and it ties us to our families, holding a special and personal value for us. Other than that, immigrants bring the

food

of their countries with them wherever they go and cooking traditional

food

is a way of preserving their culture when they move to new places.   To conclude, though many urban and rural residents had succumbed to the temptations of packaged

food

, the dominance of traditional

foods

will remain in the long term future.