Home Economics and Food nutrition

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Home Economics and Food nutrition
Resources Internet Food-sense - leaflets

• Lesson objective to understand what Food
  additives are (both good and bad)

Success criteria Build - to read the leaflets
and enter into a discussion surrounding food
additives Apply to read the case study of
someone who is allergic to food additives and
discuss how manufacturers can tackle this
problem Apply to use the leaflets and write up
notes from pages 3 on 300 odd listed
additives Apply to find an article on the
Internet that highlights a case study where
additives have affected the behaviour of a young
child in a negative way
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Task 1

1. Find out what flavour enhancers are?
2. What type of foods tend to have monosodium
   glutamate (621) in
3. What are sweeteners such as saccharin,
   aspartame and ascesulfame K?

• Lesson objective to understand what Food
  additives are (both good and bad)

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Task 2

• Find out and write up information on emulsifiers
  and stabilisers
• Read the packaging and list the additives that
  have been put into the food
• Are both from a natural or chemical source?
• What function do both of these have in food?

• Lesson objective to understand what Food
  additives are (both good and bad)

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Task 3 - Look at the drinks

1. Which ones have natural or chemical E numbers
   by looking at the name of the product
2. Are all E numbers harmful and bad for the body?

• Lesson objective to understand what Food
  additives are (both good and bad)

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Task 4 case study - Look at the drinks
A well-balanced blend, our Vegetable Juice
Cocktail contains several vital nutrients from
freshly gathered organic vegetables tomatoes,
carrots, celeriac and beetroots.  It has a rich
tomato base.  Tomatoes contain natural lycopene
(a phyto-nutrient) for improved cell function and
cell metabolism compromised by environmental
influences.  Biotta Vegetable Juice Cocktail is
low in calories and contains large amounts of
natural vitamin C.

• Lesson objective to understand what Food
  additives are (both good and bad)

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• After our friends child exhibited reactions to
  foods and drinks containing RED DYE 40 and as a
  result of doing some checking, asking questions,
  and a few hours of research, we found this
  happens to many children and adults too! We felt
  the need to do more research and provide
  information that may help others deal with
  reactions to RED DYE 40 as well as other chemical
  additives in our foods. We are NOT doctors just
  concerned parents like you.

Lesson objective to understand what Food
additives are (both good and bad)
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• Dr. John Swartzberg at the UC Berkeley Wellness
  Letter says cochineal extract, also known as
  carmine, is in all sorts of things, including
  "fruit drinks, yogurts, ice creams, fruit
  filling, lots of other foods, cosmetics, like
  lipsticks and a lot of drugs."This bug dye
  doesn't sound very yummy, but it's considered
  safe by the Food and Drug Administration, except
  for a small group of people who have an allergic
  reaction to it. The Wellness Letter says in rare
  cases that reaction could be life-threatening.

Lesson objective to understand what Food
additives are (both good and bad)