Development of Food from 19th-20th Century

  • Meat Packaging Act

    Meat Packaging Act
    Meat Inspection Act came during this time as well to set cleanliness standards for packaging meats and shipping of the meats
  • 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act

    1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
    • The federal government is now regulating a set of standards for sanitation and edibility of food and drugs, instead of how it used to be handled at the state or local level.
    • stop sale of unsafe drugs in foods/drugs in medicines without proper labeling stating the reactions
    *Meat Inspection Act came during this time as well to set cleanliness standards for packaging meats
  • Canned Fruits and Refridgeration

    Canned Fruits and Refridgeration
    • food changed due to the way people lived and worked
    • large corporations came about because women and veterans continued to stay employed
    • sweets became more abundant
  • Victory Gardens

    Victory Gardens
    • encouraged to eat more vegetables and fruits
    • meat, dairy was in short supply during war times
    • plant victory gardens for the soldiers to be able to eat off of
  • Instant Food time

    Instant Food time
    • this is the time frame where instant food became a very new trend *Instant Quaker Oats 1961
    • this is the time when food was chemically created and sugars were added into the foods
    • canned soups
  • Microwave time

    Microwave time
    *this is the start of microwavable foods
    *junk foods were advertised heavily
    * Ranch dressing came about 1980's version that did not need refrigeration