Unit 03 Use food and nutrition information to plan a healthy diet

1. Understand food labelling

• 1.1 Identify nutritional information that which must be provided on food labels
• 1.2 Identify the guideline daily amounts of fat, sugar and salt in an adult diet
• 1.3 Compare the nutritional information from 3 different food labels and determine if each of the foods is high, low or neither in terms of fat, sugar and salt content
• 1.4 Use nutritional information from food labels to calculate the energy provided by fat, protein and carbohydrate in each food
• 1.5 Outline ways in which food label claims and descriptions may be misleading

2 Understand food additives

• 2.1 Define the term ‘food additives’
• 2.2 Describe the main groups of additives and their functions
• 2.3 Explain the benefits of food additives
• 2.4 Give examples of legislation surrounding the use of food additives

3. Apply principles of healthy eating

• 3.1 Record own food and drink intake for one week
• 3.2 Compare own food and drink intake against current healthy eating advice
• 3.3 Outline the steps that could be taken to make own diet more healthy