This provides an overview of digestion in the human body.

Show the Plants PowerPoint and talk about what the foods look like when they are growing.

To understand that all food and drink provide nutrients.

This section provides Excel templates to help calculate the cost and portion size of a recipe.

Pasteurisation, sterilisation and irradiation powerpoint.

Children can label the map of the UK with foods grown in this country.

A sample permission letter is provided. This can be modified and sent to parents/carers, if you decide to run an after school cookery club.

A poster and powerpoint showing the Eatwell Guide.

A healthy diet is made up from a variety and balance of different foods and drinks, as depicted in the eatwell guide. Use the food cards to find the 5 food groups. This section provides you with detailed teaching plans for Key Fact 2, including links to all the downloadable resources.

This section provides information to help teach about the functional properties of food.

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

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

This powerpoint is supported by the notes worksheet.

Nutrient Food Sources Worksheet.

A recipe for a fruit smoothie.

To know about the development of Dietary Reference Values.

Worksheet for children to categorise food from plants or animals.

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

A presentation, worksheet and quiz exploring hydration.

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.