Mission:Explore Food: 4

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This interactive activity challenges you to create your own Gourmet Burger using beef or lamb mince and a variety of vegetables, fruit, cheese, spices and herbs. The activity goes through the stages of ingredient selection, mixing, dividing and shaping, cooking and assembly. A detailed personalised step-by-step recipe is produced so that you can make and cook your own beef or lamb burger in the classroom or at home.

Identify how and which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and play an important role in treating/preventing disease. A range of interactive activities including memory and matching games, fill in the gap, cooking videos with questions to answer, and activities with 'hot-spots' which provide jumping off points with further information.

In your second week, you’ll investigate the different relationships between food and the gut, brain, appetite and genes. You’ll also gain an understanding of how food affects fertility and pregnancy. You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in the management of certain chronic diseases today, in the past and in the future. Why macronutrients and antioxidants are special Nutrition information is based on the McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods integrated dataset (CoF IDS) (2015). The data is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid The information used in this resource is provided under the Open Government Licence. Terms can be found at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence To begin, you’ll learn about what food contains and what makes it special. From macronutrients and micronutrients to antioxidants, you’ll discover how each element contributes to your overall health and wellbeing.

On this course, you’ll learn how food science and nutrition helps us to understand and study the fascinating world of food. Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food! Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body! It affects how you feel, and can even change how you perform in sports. This science fair project will help you explore the link between what goes in your mouth and what your legs and arms can do. Kahoot quizzes can be used as part of live lessons either online or face-to-face. Find out more about the Kahoot quizzes on Healthy eating, Cooking and Where food comes from for pupils aged 11-14 years here and 14-16 years here. If you, or your pupils haven't used Kahoot before, why not have a read of our handy guide?

Identify current evidenced based, nutrition related public health guidelines and apply these to improve personal eating habits and nutritional intake.

The future of food is exciting, so we’ll explore how food may be used as medicine in the future, and the potential role food will play in your health and wellbeing. IANE Membership Describe what is meant by the term ‘food as medicine’ and list a number of examples of how foods have been used as medicine in the past. You may be able to do a food technologist advanced apprenticeship then move on to a food industry technical professional degree apprenticeship. Entry requirements

Explore food has been designed to be easy to use, guiding pupils through the analysis of a recipe or a day’s diet. It provides data for the pupil to analyse and draw conclusions away from their PC or tablet, further supporting their studies. You could improve your career prospects by getting Registered Scientist (RSci) or Chartered Scientist (CSci) status through the Institute of Food Science and Technology.