Nutrients and Food Groups 21/10/2020

Starter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 - 1593) was an Italian painter

best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made
Unscramble the words… entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables and flowers

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Challenge
Question
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think each one
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 Nutrients and Food Groups 21/10/2020
Starter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527 - 1593) was an Italian painter
best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made
Unscramble the words… entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables and flowers

Carbohydrates

Proteins

fast

vitamins
Challenge
Question
Water What do you
think each one
is used for?
minerals
Task
Design a plate with information about the different
nutrients we need to keep us healthy.
Success Criteria

Carrot: Each nutrient is identified.

Broccoli: Describes what each nutrient is needed for.

Potato: Gives examples of foods that contain the nutrients.

Use your unscrambled How many vitamins do

words as a starting point. you know?
Try splitting the plate into What happens if you
sections don’t get enough of each
one?
Balanced Diet

Look at the diets on the next slide

Which of the diets is balanced?

Name a food which provides each food group

Explain why the other diets are unbalanced

A
B
C
D
In pairs

What are these?

What are they for?

Do you look at them?

Why? / Why not?

Food labels
Food labels provide a lot of information about what is
actually in your food and how much is good for you.

Using the following slides or food packets in your own

house, can you find:

1. A good source of carbohydrate.

2. A good source of protein.
3. A good source of fat.
4. How would you choose between different foods
which are good sources of carbohydrate?
5. Think of three groups of people and explain why they
might need different diets
In pairs. Choose a food group
(Carbohydrate, Fat or Protein)

Who can get

furthest through
the alphabet
writing foods
which contain that
food group?

…in two minutes

…best of three.