A fun selection of card games to test students’ knowledge of different foods and their ingredients
Food ingredients card games
What can be added to the food you buy?
Students will learn about the main classes of food additives, and their purpose
Reading the label
By law, food manufacturers must list, on the packet, the ingredients in their products. Ingredients are usually listed in descending order by weight.
Students are given the ingredients list for a cheese and ham pasty, and will then answer questions on its contents.
Finding the additives
Students are given the ingredients list from a vinaigrette salad dressing, and have to identify the different additives it contains.
Food safety
In this text-based activity, students look at the preparation of a buffet lunch for a school fete. They are asked to highlight areas of poor hygiene that could cause problems such as food poisoning.
Would you eat these for breakfast?
The purpose of this activity is to illustrate that all foods are chemicals.
Students are given lists of ingredients from five breakfast foods. They are asked to identify them and consider how palatable or otherwise they appear from their chemical constituents.
Guess the food from the labels
Students are given copies of ingredients labels from several common foods, including baked beans, cornflakes, ice cream and naan bread. They are challenged to identify the food from its ingredients.
