Amounts of food | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

What do fruit and vegetables provide our bodies with?
- protein
- fat
- fibre ✓
Why is it important to eat foods containing carbohydrates?
- They give us energy. ✓
- They help to keep our bones healthy.
- They give us fibre which helps us to go to the toilet regularly.
Which of these foods is a good source of protein?
- bananas
- bread
- fish ✓
Why is it important to eat food containing protein?
- They contain vitamins and fibre.
- They give us energy.
- They help our body to grow and repair itself. ✓
Dairy and alternatives contain calcium which is good for our ______ that make up our skeleton.
- 'bones' ✓
Which of these statements is true?
- To have a healthy diet, humans should not eat any food containing fat.
- To have a healthy diet, humans should eat some foods containing some fat. ✓
- To have a healthy diet, humans should eat a lot of food containing a lot of fat.

Exit quiz

What is the name for a scientist that studies food and advises people on their food choices?
- a botanist
- a geologist
- a dietician ✓
True or false? Eating a lot of the same type of food is good for your health.
- 'false' ✓
What is an amount of food?
- how spicy a food is
- how healthy a food is
- how much food there is ✓
Where can we find information about the amounts of food we should eat?
- a secondary source ✓
- a prediction
- a method
What does the Eatwell plate show us?
- how much sleep we should get each night
- how much food we should eat from each food group ✓
- how much exercise we should do
Which two groups should we eat the most food from?
- oils and spreads
- fruit and vegetables ✓
- protein
- dairy and alternatives
- carbohydrates ✓

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Key learning points

A dietician is a scientist who studies food and advises people on their food and nutrition choices.
Eating too much, or not enough, of certain types of food can be harmful to our health.
Information about amounts of food can be found by using secondary sources of information.
The Eatwell plate is a guide based on how much you should eat from each food group.

Common misconception

Pupils may think that a ‘balanced’ diet should include equal-sized proportions of the different food groups (rather than appropriate amounts of each food group).

Explanation that humans need to eat different amounts of foods and that the Eatwell plate shows us the amounts of each food that we should eat.

Keywords

Dietician - A dietician is a person who scientifically studies and gives advice about food and eating.
Nutrition - Nutrition is what you take into your body as food and the way that it influences your health.
Amount - An amount is a quantity of something.
Secondary sources - Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.