Our Influnces For most people, taste, cost and convenience are the big three when it comes to food choice. Of course we want food to tastgood, wee want value, and we don’t want to have to work very hard to get it. Any food ad on television will tell you that. But there are more subtle influences at work, too. Our backgrounds and upbringing dictate our choices to a large degree – culture and religious influences are at work to tell us, for example, which foods are acceptable and which ones aren’t, or what we foods we should traditionally eat on holidays.Your age and stage of life play a big role, too along with gender.Each of our daily food decisions is shaped by all the cultural, social, economic and biological influences that mold your eating habits into a form of self-expression