Hello, my name is Mrs. Mehrin and I'm really excited to be learning all about nutrition from food with you.

Let's begin.

Welcome to today's lesson from the unit, "Healthy Eating." Your learning outcome is, "I can identify that humans get nutrition from what they eat." Now, I know that learning can sometimes be a little bit challenging, but that's okay 'cause it just means that we are going to work really hard together and we're going to learn lots of fabulous new things.

Let's begin.

So here are your keywords along with the definitions for those keywords.

I am going to be referring to these throughout today's video.

However, if you find it helpful, you can pause the video here and jot these down.

Fantastic.

Well done.

Now, our lesson is split into two parts.

Let's begin with the first part, nutritional information.

Izzy has been learning about the importance of a balanced diet, and Izzy's sister says, "If you know the nutritional information of different foods, this can help you to choose which foods to eat." And Izzy says, "What is nutritional information?" Do you know? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done.

So Izzy's sister says, "Nutritional information is information or facts about the nutrients contained in different foods." And Izzy says, "Why is it important to know about this?" What do you think? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Fabulous.

Well done.

So Izzy's sister says, "It's important that we make informed decisions about what we eat." And an informed decision is a choice you make when you have gathered all the information you need.

So Izzy is looking at some different foods, a toasted cheese sandwich, a jacket potato with beans and chicken and salad.

And Izzy says, "I don't know which one to choose for my lunch." Izzy does not know the nutritional information of this food, so how can she make an informed decision? Let's do a quick checking of your learning so far.

True or false, it's important that we know the nutritional information of foods we eat.

Is that true or false? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Fantastic.

Well done, the answer is true.

Now let's see if you can justify your answer.

Is it because A, this can help us to make informed decisions about what we eat.

Or B, this can help us to choose our favourite foods.

I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fabulous.

Well done, the answer is A.

It's important that we know the nutritional information of foods we eat because this can help us to make informed decisions about what we eat.

Now, Izzy notices something on the packaging of some food, and she asks, "What is that?" Do you know? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done.

So Izzy's sister says, "This is a label.

It shows us the type and amount of nutrients contained in this food.

Most prepacked foods in the UK have a nutritional information label on the packaging." Have you seen this before? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Fantastic.

Well done.

So food labels give us lots of information about the nutrients in the food that we eat, such as how much fat, carbohydrate, sugars, protein, and salt these foods contain.

They may also include other nutrients like fibre.

So here we can see that in this particular food, per 100 grammes, there are 10 grammes of fat.

So, and in a quarter of a pizza there's 15 grammes of fat, which is 21% of the recommended daily allowance for an adult.

And it also tells you that it's 70 grammes, which is 21% of the recommended daily allowance of fat that an adult can have.

We can see as well there's information about the carbohydrates.

So we know that per 100 grammes of this pizza, there are 29.

6 grammes of carbohydrates, and 44.

4 grammes of carbohydrates per quarter pizza, and it doesn't have the recommended allowance for an adult.

Now, carbohydrates, of which sugars, you've got, so these are all your sugars in the food.

4.

9 grammes per 100 grammes, 7.

4 grammes per quarter of a pizza.

So you can use this information just like this to make an informed decision about whether or not to have the food.

So in the UK, most prepacked foods have a label that gives us information about A, how much the food weighs, B, the shop that sells the food, or C, the nutrients contained in the food.

What do you think? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fabulous.

Well done, the answer is C, the nutrients contained in the food.

Now Izzy says, "I observed that some of the labels are in different colours.

They are red, amber, and green, like a traffic light." So here we've got saturated fats are in red, fats are in amber, and the sugars are in green.

Now, why do you think this is? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic, well done.

So this is called, "Colour coding" And it means the labels are in different colours so that we can see the information quickly and easily.

Colour coded nutritional information can quickly tell you if the food has high, moderate, or low amounts of fat, sugars and salts.

Red means high amounts.

Amber means moderate amounts, and moderate means it's not too much but not less either.

It's kind of there in the middle.

And green means low amounts.

Now, usually a food or drink that has all or mostly green on the label has small amounts of fat, saturated fat, salt or sugars.

A red label means the food is high in fat, saturated fat, salt or sugars.

And saturated fats are fats that come from animal products like butter, ghee, cheese and fatty meats.

Dietitians advise eating only very small amounts of fats like these.

Amber means neither high nor low.

These foods contain a moderate amount of fat, saturated fat, salt, or sugars.

Now let's do a quick checking of your learning so far.

True or false, some nutritional information is colour coded.

Is that true or false? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done, the answer is true.

Now let's see if you can justify your answer.

Is it because A, colour coding nutritional information makes it look good? Or B, colour coding nutritional information makes it simple to understand it quickly? Again, I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done, the answer is B.

Colour coding nutritional information makes it simple to understand quickly.

So here is your first task.

It says, "Focusing only on the amounts of sugar, sort these food labels into red, amber, and green groups." I'll give you some time now to do that so I'd like you to pause the video and have a go at doing this.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done.

So the fish cakes and the chicken are green, so they've got low amounts of sugar.

The cereal and the popcorn have moderate amount of sugar because it's in amber, and chocolate biscuits and fig rolls are high in sugar, so they are red.

So now we are onto the second part of our learning study, which is measuring nutritional information.

So Jacob looks at the label on some food packaging and he says, "The nutritional label on the packaging of this food says the amount of energy is 172 kcal.

What is a kcal?" Do you know? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fabulous.

Well done.

So the amount of energy in food or drink is measured in something called, "Calories." And this is sometimes written as, "kcal." The higher the number, the greater amount of energy it provides.

You need energy from calories for your body to work as it should.

Your body uses this energy to function properly.

The number of calories we should get from our diet can depend on our age and how active we are.

Jacob says, "Why does the nutritional information label on the back of my breakfast cereal box say per 100 grammes? Does this mean I should only eat a 100 grammes of cereal each day?" Now, nutritional information is provided per 100 grammes or per 100 millilitres.

Sometimes it's shown per portion of the food or drink.

For example, on the last label here, it's per quarter of a pizza.

So let's do a quick checking of your learning so far.

How is nutritional information provided? Is it A, per 100 grammes or millilitres of the food or drink? B, per centimetres of the food or drink? C, per portion of the food or drink? Or D, per minute of the food or drink? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done.

The answers are A and C.

Now, the nutritional information on food labels help us to compare food in a fair way and decide which foods to eat less or more often as part of a healthy balanced diet.

So Jacob's brother uses the nutritional information on food labels to compare two brands of his favourite cereal, and he says, "I can see that one cereal has less sugar, more fibre, and less salt than the other cereal.

Now the nutritional information has helped me to decide that I would like to switch to cereal with less sugar, more fibre, and less salt as part of my balanced diet.

But I can still have the other cereal sometimes." So you just wouldn't have it as often.

Now, some cafes and restaurants provide nutritional information on their menus.

Why do you think this might be useful? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Fantastic, well done.

So this helps people to make informed decisions about what foods they eat based on the nutrition that they provide.

Now let's do a quick checking of your learning.

True or false.

It is not important to know the nutritional information of what we eat and drink.

Is that true or false? I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fabulous.

Well done, the answer is false.

Now let's see if you can justify your answer.

Is that because A, nutrition information helps us to choose the tastiest foods and drinks? Or B, nutrition information helps us to compare foods in a fair way and make an informed choice about what to eat? Again, I'll give you five seconds to think about your answer.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done, the answer is B.

So here is your second task for today.

It says, "Compare the nutritional information of two different foods or drinks using the information from the label on the packaging." Jacob says, "You can use your own labels or use mine instead." So I'm going to give you some time now to do this activity.

I'd like you to pause the video here and have a go.

Off you go.

Fantastic.

Well done.

So Aisha says, the nutritional information on the two labels is similar except for the amount of sugar in each drink.

The cola drink has a red sugar label, meaning that it contains a lot of sugar.

I'm going to choose to drink this type of drink only occasionally." So only sometimes.

Now we are onto the summary of your learning, and it says, "Knowing the nutritional information of what we eat is important so we can make informed decisions.

Most pre-packed foods shares this on the label and it can be colour coded to make it simple to understand.

It's often provided per 100 grammes or per 100 millilitres and sometimes per portion of the food or drink.

Nutritional information helps us to compare foods in a fair way and be aware of foods that are high in fats, sugars, and salts." Now, it has been such a pleasure doing this lesson with you.

You have worked really hard and used your critical thinking to help you to make informed decisions about the food that you eat.

Well done.