Starter quiz
- The main ingredient of bread is often...
- wheat ✓
- oats
- milk
- bananas
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- Which of these foods also contain wheat?
- cakes ✓
- pasta ✓
- crackers ✓
- rice
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- Put these stages of food production in order.
- 1⇔Grow crops
- 2⇔Harvest crops
- 3⇔Process
- 4⇔Produce
- 5⇔Package
- 6⇔Distribute
- In addition to flour what else is needed to make bread?
- Yeast ✓
- Water ✓
- Salt ✓
- Cheese
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- Why is bread made in factories?
- it can be made in large quantities ✓
- it can be made quickly ✓
- it smells delicious
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- How many loaves of bread are sold every day in the UK?
- 1100
- 11 000
- 11 million ✓
- 11
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Exit quiz
- Match the key term with the correct definition.
- place of origin⇔the place where something first comes from ✓
- in season⇔the time of year when a food is naturally ready for harvesting ✓
- imported⇔goods brought in from another country ✓
- Match the food to its place of origin.
- chocolate⇔Central America ✓
- wheat⇔West Asia ✓
- apples⇔Central Asia ✓
- When did humans first start farming?
- the Stone Age ✓
- the Bronze Age
- in Tudor times
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- What types of food processing were used first?
- canning
- refrigeration
- fermentation ✓
- pasteurisation ✓
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- What are the positives to food processing?
- makes the food last longer ✓
- provides vitamins and minerals ✓
- makes it more expensive
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- What are the negatives to food processing?
- it has fewer nutrients ✓
- it has higher levels of sugar and salt ✓
- it contains bright colours
- it is cheaper
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Key learning points
- The foods routinely available in the UK have numerous places of origin around the world; many are imported.
- Contemporary food production, processing and distribution systems are much more complex than those of the past.
- There are potential positive and negative impacts of contemporary food production, processing and distribution systems.
Common misconception
Limited understanding of the difference between unprocessed and processed or ultra-processed foods.
Sort some different foods into categories according to their level of processing.
Keywords
Place of origin - The place of origin is the place where something first comes from
Imported - Goods that are imported are brought in from another country
Greenhouse gas emissions - Greenhouse gas emissions are gases that are released and trap heat in Earth’s atmosphere
In season - In season means the time of year when a food is naturally ready for harvesting
Processing - Processing means making changes to a food’s natural state. An example is cooking beans in a tomato sauce and preserving them in tins
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