Food & Nutrition - Year 9

Food & Nutrition Overview

Term 1: Food Preparation and Nutrition

Students will revise their hygiene knowledge and will ensure a working knowledge of good practice in the kitchen. Students will revise the Eat Well guide and the 8 guidelines for a healthy diet, focusing on starchy carbohydrates, energy balance and the function of fibre and water in the body. Students will demonstrate safe use of the hob and knife skills,

  1. Every practical is assessed during the lesson by informal feedback.

    At the end of each half term students sit a theory assessment on topics that have been covered that half term.

Protein

Macronutrient that the body uses for growth and repair

Amino acids

The ‘building blocks’ that join together to make protein molecules.

Protein complementation

Eating different low biological value foods together in order to get all the essential amino acids that the body needs.

Fat

Macronutrient that supplies the body with energy, and provides insulation as well as storage of fat soluble vitamins

Carbohydrates

The macronutrient that provides the body with energy.

Hydrated

The body has enough water.

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Term 2: Dietary needs

Students will learn about coeliac disease, type 1 & type 2 diabetes, and lactose intolerance. They will consider how recipes and diet can be adapted to meet their dietary needs.

  1. Every practical is assessed during the lesson by informal feedback.

    At the end of each half term students sit a theory assessment on topics that have been covered that half term.

Lacto-vegetarian

Someone who does not eat meat or fish but will eat milk and milk products.

Diet-related disease

A disease or health condition where one or more of the risk factors for developing it are what or how much of particular foods or beverages you eat or drink over a period of time.

Nutrient profile

The different nutrients that a specific food contains.

Modify

Change something in a recipe e.g. an ingredient or cooking method to make it more suitable for current guidelines for a healthy diet.

Lifestyle

The way in which people live, their attitudes, activities, likes and dislikes, beliefs, etc

Food allergy

This happens to come people when their immune system has a very sensitive reaction to specific foods, which causes severe and potentially life-threatening symptoms that happen very quickly after the food is eaten.

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Term 3: Function of vitamins and minerals.

Students will look at the functions vitamins and minerals have on the human body.

  1. Every practical is assessed during the lesson by informal feedback.

    At the end of each half term students sit a theory assessment on topics that have been covered that half term.

Intensive farming

Growing or rearing large numbers of the same type of plant or animals in one place.

Pesticides

Chemicals sprayed onto plant crops to prevent insect and mould attack and weed growth, and produce strong plants.

Organic farming

Producing food using manure, compost and natural methods of weed, pest and disease control rather than chemicals.

Genetic modification

A scientific technique that enables a particular characteristic from one plant of animal to be inserted into the genes of another.

Reared ingredients

Animals, birds and fish specially bred in captivity and brought up to be reared to eat.

Fossil fuels

Fuels such as coal, oil and gas that were created over millions of years by fossilised plants and animals.

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Term 4: Nutritional need through life

Students will look at the different life stages and how the nutritional need changes through each life stage. Students will also look at energy needs for each life stage.

  1. Every practical is assessed during the lesson by informal feedback.

    At the end of each half term students sit a theory assessment on topics that have been covered that half term.

Primary food processing

When foods are processed straight after harvest or slaughter, to get them ready to be eaten or ready to be used in other food products, such as wheat grain (seeds) turned into flour.

Secondary food processing

When primary processed foods are either used on their own or mixed with other foods and turned into other food products, such as wheat flour turned into bread or pasta.

Milling

Breaking cereal grains (seeds) down and separating the layers, turning the grain into flour.

Fortification

Adding extra nutrients to a food product during its manufacture

Food additives

Natural or synthetic (man-made) chemical substances that are added to foods during manufacturing or processing to improve the quality, flavour, colour, texture or stability.

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Term 5: Microorganisms in food production.

Students will look at microorganisms in food production and be able to give examples of food that is produced using these production methods and microorganisms.

  1. Every practical is assessed during the lesson by informal feedback.

    At the end of each half term students sit a theory assessment on topics that have been covered that half term.

Heat transfer

The way in which heat energy is passed into food

Conduction

Transferring heat through a solid object into food

Convection

Transferring heat through a liquid or air into food

Radiation

Transferring heat by infra-red waves that heat up what they come in to contact with.

Danger Zone

The range of temperatures (5 degrees C to 63 degrees C) that are just right for bacteria to multiply rapidly.

High-risk foods

Foods that contain a lot of moisture and nutrients, especially protein (e.g. milk, cream, eggs, meat, fish), and easily support the growth of pathogenic micro-organisms, particularly bacteria. Also called perishable foods

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Term 6: Culinary skills

Students will recap on all the dishes they have produced in year nine, they will plan, prepare and cook a dish to suit a brief given that will link in with previous topics.

  1. Final assessment will be in the form of formal feedback, when students have produced their final practical dish following the brief given.
Sensory qualities

The characteristics of a food that give it a particular appearance. Flavour texture, ‘mouthfeel’ (what it feels like, not what it tastes like, when you put it in your mouth) aroma (smell)

Target group

A specific group of similar people, e.g. all the same age, with similar jobs, such as students.

Plasticity

The ability of fat to soften over a range of temperatures and be shaped and spread with light pressure.

Shortening

The ability of fats to shorten the length of the gluten molecules in the pastry

Aeration

The ability of some fats to trap lots of air bubbles when beaten together with sugar.

Raising agent

An ingredient or process that introduces a gas into a mixture so that it rises when cooked

Emulsification

Either keeping drops of oil or fat suspended in a liquid and preventing them from separating out; or keeping drops of water suspended in an oil or fat and preventing them from separating out

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