Sensory evaluation is a scientific discipline that analyses and measures human responses to the composition of food and drink, e.g. appearance, touch, odour, texture, temperature and taste.

A poster looking which areas of the UK different dishes come from.

Two useful hygiene worksheets.

This Powerpoint provides an overview of the needs and requirements for nutrients in the diet.

To ensure that a recipe works, it is important to weigh and measure ingredients accurately.

In this story the Food investigators learn about breads from different countries and make their own different shaped bread rolls. Includes worksheet to label the countries different breads are from. Follow the link for interactive white board resources.

A presentation, worksheet and quiz exploring hydration.

A presentation looking at the Harvest festival.

An activity to investigate the effect of different conditions on yeast development and fermentation.

An outline of a fridge and cupboard to which food images can be placed.

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Explain to children that food packaging often displays nutrition information which can help people make choices. Use the Food labels PowerPoint to highlight how this information is presented and how it can be used.

Use the Food safety PowerPoint to explain to children about how good food safety and hygiene is undertaken when cooking.

A presentation looking bread traditions around the world.

Tha facail a dhìth air cuid de na seantasan san sgeulachd. Lìon a-steach na facail a tha a dhìth.

Because of their physical and chemical properties, foods perform different functions which can be used in the production of food products.

A worksheet about food labels.

This section provides information to help teach about different aspects of food spoilage, food preservation, food hygiene and safety.

This set of resources developed by ‘British Nutrition Foundation’, form part of a series of successful lessons exploring healthy eating for children aged 7-11 years . This section provides you with detailed teaching plans, worksheets and presentations and also includes links to all the downloadable resources to support teaching of healthy eating; key fact one-Around the world people choose and combine different foods to make meals and snacks. The total amount and range of foods eaten is called the diet.

A poster looking at food presentation and styling.