Mission:Explore Food: 4

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Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities

This interactive activity challenges you to create your own Gourmet Burger using beef or lamb mince and a variety of vegetables, fruit, cheese, spices and herbs. The activity goes through the stages of ingredient selection, mixing, dividing and shaping, cooking and assembly. A detailed personalised step-by-step recipe is produced so that you can make and cook your own beef or lamb burger in the classroom or at home. Experience of working in a food science or food development environment, for example through an industrial placement, may improve your career prospects. Entry requirementsFinally, we’ll discuss the complexities of nutrition science, how it’s evolving, and how nutrition misinformation may end up as fact. Then you’ll learn to apply mindfulness to the way you engage with your food. Identify how and which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and play an important role in treating/preventing disease. This course will have broad general interest appeal to everyone interested in food, nutrition and health. But it will be of particular interest to healthcare professionals who are looking to have more evidenced-based information, to assist them in providing food-based recommendations to their patients. AfN Certified Course To begin, you’ll learn about what food contains and what makes it special. From macronutrients and micronutrients to antioxidants, you’ll discover how each element contributes to your overall health and wellbeing.

The British Nutrition Foundation is grateful for financial support from the All Saints Educational Trust to enable us to develop this resource.Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below. Food - a fact of life provides Explore Food, a free user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school pupils. Nutrition information is based on the McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods integrated dataset (CoF IDS) (2015). The data is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid The information used in this resource is provided under the Open Government Licence. Terms can be found at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

You could improve your career prospects by getting Registered Scientist (RSci) or Chartered Scientist (CSci) status through the Institute of Food Science and Technology. Evaluate the foundations of nutritional advice provided by governments by applying scientific knowledge about nutrition and considering factors that influence decision-making when it comes to food. This course has been certified by the Association for Nutrition. It meets AfN standards for nutrition training of individuals working at Level 1 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). You could work for a range of organisations involved in researching and developing new products, including: How much iron is in your cereal? In this experiment, you will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. Which brand of cereal will have the most iron in it?Music from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music that is distributed by Smithsonian Folkways ​ A range of interactive activities including memory and matching games, fill in the gap, cooking videos with questions to answer, and activities with 'hot-spots' which provide jumping off points with further information.