Nutritional analysis (11-14 Years)

11 - 14 Years
Nutritional analysis (11-14 Years)

Explore Food, a free user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school pupils.

Nutritional analysis resources

Food - a fact of life provides Explore Food, a free user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school pupils.

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.

To access Explore food, click here.

Below is a series of worksheets: Recipes, Diet and Case studies.

Download the Teachers notes, which provide more details about how to use the Explore Food tool.

Click on the image below to go to Explore Food!

A screenshot of the homepage of Explore Food. Options to calculate a recipe, calculate a diet or continue a project

Recipe worksheets

To support pupils using Explore Food to analyse recipes we have created the following worksheets:

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Using Explore Food

A worksheet explaining how to use nutrition analysis (Explore Food).

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Allergen labelling

A worksheet focusing on allergen labelling.

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Comparing the label

A worksheet exploring food labelling.

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Creating a food label

A worksheet about using Explore Food to create a front of pack nutrition label.

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DRV's challenge

A worksheet exploring DRVs and meeting recommendations.

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Food labelling information

An information sheet about food labels.

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Food labelling (supplement)

An additional worksheet about food labelling.

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Food labels

A worksheet about food labels.

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High, medium or low?

A worksheet exploring traffic light labelling on food products.

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Investigating portion sizes

A worksheet looking at different food portion sizes and nutrition,

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Modifying a recipe

A worksheet focusing on modifying a recipe for health.

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My recipe

A template worksheet to record a recipe for nutritional analysis.

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Nutrition labels

A worksheet exploring and creating nutrition labels.

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Recipe modification

A worksheet setting different recipe modification challenges.

Diet worksheets

To support pupils using Explore Food to analyse diets we have created the following worksheets:

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Portion sizes

A guide listing portion sizes for a range of food and drinks.

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Diet diary analysis

A worksheet around the analysis of a diet.

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Diet dairy

A worksheet to record the diet over a day.

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My diet

A worksheet posing questions on a diet diary for a day.

Case studies

To support pupils using Explore Food, the following case studies have been devised:

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