Significance Of Street Food

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Street-vended food or It’s equivalent “street food” which are defined as food and beverages prepared and sold by vendors jmon streets and other public places for immediate consumption or consumption at a later time without further processing or preparation. Consumers are always interested on convenience rather than safety. Vendors are often poorly educated, unlicensed, untrained in food hygiene, and they work under crude unsanitary conditions with little or no knowledge about the causes of food borne disease. Most of the food are not well protected from flies, which may carry food borne pathogens. Safe food storage temperature are rarely applied to street food. The street food industry plays an important role in meeting the food requirements of urban dwellers in many cities and towns of developing countries and the industry feeds millions of people daily with a wide variety of food that are relatively cheap, easily accessible and is not time consuming. The consumer’s limited purchasing power and competition by fellow hawkers lead to relatively low mark-up on street foods. In many countries, workers as well as students have their first meal of the day from street food vendors. Although in depth-nutritional studies related to street food have not yet been completed, it is believed that many low income families would be worse off if there were no street food vendors to serve fast and inexpensive food. Even though people are aware that food borne disease could occur due to consumption of street food, the majority disregards health hazards. Food borne illness of microbial origin is a major international problem associated to food safety and important cause of death worldwide. With these outbreaks, it is important to study about “street food” for people to be aware and discover even a little background about the food they eat everyday. This study could help on lowering down the mortality rate statistically calculated yearly. On the other