Dish Detective - Nutritional Analysis Tool for Food Technology Students
DISH DETECTIVE - NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS
Turn any student recipe into a full nutritional investigation. Students type in their ingredients and instantly see traffic-light labels, cost per portion, an Eatwell Guide check, vitamins and minerals, a food label and a star profile. Built on UK data, for UK classrooms.
WHAT YOU GET
Dish Detective app: one file that opens in any modern web browser. No installation, no accounts, no logins.
Student Guidance Booklet (PDF): a step-by-step guide with worked examples
WHAT STUDENTS CAN DO
Enter a recipe from a list of nearly 2,900 UK foods and see energy, fat, saturates, sugars, salt, protein, carbohydrate and fibre per portion
See UK front-of-pack traffic lights and % of reference intake
Cost a recipe from real shop prices, and see the cost per portion
Work out a selling price, profit, profit margin, markup and break-even price
Compare their dish with the Eatwell Guide food groups
See 19 vitamins and minerals, with the main source of each
Build a UK-style food label with ingredients in weight order and allergens in bold
Compare an original recipe with an improved version side by side
Score their dish on five criteria of their own choice and plot it on a star profile
Collect scores from other tasters using printable or on-screen taster sheets, and plot them on the same chart
Download a hand-in report (or save as PDF) to upload to Teams, Google Classroom or any other system
REQUIREMENTS
A computer, laptop or tablet with a recent web browser such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.
INSTANT DOWNLOAD
After purchase you can download the files . Nothing is posted.
DATA SOURCE
Nutrition values come from McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID) 2021.
IMPORTANT NOTES
Results are estimates based on the weights entered, for educational use only. They are not dietary, medical or allergy advice.
Where the dataset has no value for a nutrient, the tool counts it as zero and shows a warning.
Allergens and Eatwell Guide groups are suggested automatically from food names, so students should check them.
Labels made by the tool are for classwork only. Do not use them for food you sell.
This product is not affiliated with or endorsed by UKHSA, the NHS, the Food Standards Agency or the Eatwell Guide.
QUESTIONS?
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