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For example, the meaning of food literacy can be narrowed down to knowing how to grocery shop and prepare a meal, resulting in obedient neoliberal consumers who never challenge the food system. However, given the problems associated with our current food system, adults need abroader, more critical understanding of food literacy to address issues such as human health and planetary sustainability. Using a Freirean analysis, this article explores how a new trend at the forefront of literacies in adult education – critical food literacy – can empower adults to ‘read the world’ through food in order to navigate, question and change the food system. It examines power in the food system, discusses both food literacy and critical food literacy, and illustrateshow adults learn the set of skills, knowledge and understandings that can challenge power in the food system and open the door to more equitable and sustainable ways of producing and consuming food.  \nKeywords: critical food literacy, food literacy food system, Paulo Freire, power  \n402 Jennifer Sumner  \nIntroduction  \nLiteracy has represented society’s most basic knowledge requirements, its highest aspirations, and many of its primordial fears for more than two centuries, thus rendering the ‘simple task’of reading, writing and numeracy highly controversial in the field of adult education (Quigley, 2005) . This controversy is exemplified in changes to the focus of literacy, from humanism and citizenship to an emphasis on economics (Taylor & Ghani, 2021).More recently, literacy has been used in the plural, with Holloway and Gouthro (2020, p.2) noting that“the literacies that are required for individuals to participate actively in the workforce and in the wider community today are more complex than in the past.”  \nOne of these complex literacies is food literacy, which combines the ongoing human need for food with the evolution of reading, writing and numeracy activities. Food literacy, in its simplest form, can be understood as “a basket of knowledge, skills and behaviours whose specific contents will vary over the life-course in response to changes”(Vidgen, 2016, p.63).However, in the face of larger issues associated with the global corporate food system (including climate change and poor human health), it is vital to develop an understanding of food literacy that can help people challenge power in the food system, with the aim of encouraging food system change. How can adult educators contribute to this understanding?  \nThis paper will address this question by focusing on the concept of food literacy through the lens of adult learning and education (ALE). It will begin with a short introduction to ALE, followed by some background on food and food systems before moving to food and learning, and food literacy. Using a Freirean foundation, it will go on to explore critical food literacy as a tool for empowerment. The paper will then provide three examples of how adults learn critical food literacy – in the areas of globalization, sustainability and public health – before summing up in the conclusion.  \nAdult learning and education (ALE)  \n“The field of adult learning and education (ALE) is a very diverse, heterogeneous and complex one, as it covers all the issues related to the  \nCritical food literacy: Learning to challenge power in the food system 403  \nlearning of adults, from a lifelong learning (LLL) perspective, both for personal and professional development”(Sava, 2016, p.VII). 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