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