Essays on Nutritional Foods

- Important things to consider in new product development and why is it necessary to evaluate the new product idea at each stage of development.

New product development is an important process requiring an understanding of the target market, identification of user needs and the product usage context. Consideration of such user-driven factors is what often makes or breaks a product launch especially for small and new businesses. Larger companies on the other hand have already established markets and thus their main consideration is the product’s desirability, feasibility and cost effectiveness (Kotler & Keller, 2009). The new product must ...

WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program refers to the policy passed to safeguard the health of low-income women, infants, and children up to the age of 5 who are at a nutrition risk by providing nutritious foods to supplement their diets, information on healthy eating and referrals to health care (Oliveira et al. 2 ). The policy’s focus is on providing nutritional assistance to pregnant and breastfeeding women who must eat nutritional foods during the critical times of a child’s growth and development, as well as providing infants with supplemental nutritional foods to prevent future developmental or medical problems ...

Ethics is described to be a set of social principles, codes of one’s society or particular group. Business ethics can thus be defined as the social responsibility of a company to their customers and retailers. In the case study the managers need to be assertive in their decisions and consistently honest with retailers and consumers. The case discusses the aspect of ethics on nutritional food company after unpasteurized products were distributed to different regions causing food poisoning to the consumers. In this case the sense of responsibility for the mistake may either come directly from the management or from the ...