Friday 6 December 2019

Food for thought

This week we have been learning how to read labels on food products to see if they are okay to eat every day or if they are occasional foods. First, a lady named Brittany came into our class/school to teach us all about our bodies, how to read labels, what is healthy for us and what is not healthy for us. Then the next day/Friday we took a trip to New World/the supermarket to do some labeling work on a sheet. We had a sheet and there were 5 different categories of foods...
Breakfast cereals, Bread, Muesli bars, Snack foods, and Milk/dairy products. And what we had to do with them was choose two different things from each category, one of them had to be an everyday food and the other one had to be an occasional food. And how we worked that out was when we looked at the labels the sugar had to be less than 10g unless it had fruit in it, Energy could be anything, the fat total had to be less than 10g unless it had seeds and nuts it could be higher, the calcium we don't know, the sodium/salt had to be less than 400mg, and the dietary fibre had to be more than 5g.



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