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  • Your Food
    • The role of additives and ingredients
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  • Food Additives
    • Additive types
    • Additive numbers
    • Why Use Additives
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    • Key Ingredients
  • Food Issues
    • Allergy & Intolerance
      • Allergens
      • Hyperactivity
    • GM Foods
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Category: Introduction to food additives

Uses activities based around food labels to identify ingredients and additives in a wide variety of foods

Posted on July 17, 2018August 3, 2018

Food ingredients card games

A fun selection of card games to test students’ knowledge of different foods and their ingredients
Food ingredients card games
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Posted on July 17, 2018August 2, 2018

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.

Reading the label
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Posted on July 17, 2018August 3, 2018

Finding the additives

Students are given the ingredients list from a vinaigrette salad dressing, and have to identify the different additives it contains.

Finding the additives
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Posted on July 17, 2018August 3, 2018

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.

Food Safety
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Posted on July 17, 2018August 3, 2018

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.

Would you eat these for breakfast?
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Posted on July 17, 2018August 3, 2018

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.

Guess the food from the labels
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Posted on July 17, 2018August 3, 2018

What can be added to the food you buy?

Students will learn about the main classes of food additives, and their purpose

What can be added to the food you buy?
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