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Love Food, Love Science

What is Love Food Love Science?

Love Food Love Science gives secondary school teachers access to credible food science and technology teaching resources and mentoring support. It is provided free by the Institute of Food Science and Technology, a charity and professional body representing food science professionals in the UK, across Europe and beyond.

We created Love Food Love Science with and for our friends in the teaching profession to ensure our food science and technology resources have practical application and meet genuine need in the classroom.

We are passionate about food science and technology. We want to pass on our excitement by helping teachers deliver engaging and relevant lessons and open young people’s eyes to the range of interesting and rewarding food science and technology careers. Visit Food Start for more information about a future in food.

Discover teaching resources

Love Food Love Science offers teaching resources for secondary school science at KS3 and KS4, specifically GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition as well more traditional sciences, such as Chemistry, Biology, and Physics.

We have developed new resources (explanations of scientific concepts, lesson plans, food science investigations, and videos) where we have spotted gaps in the resources available to teachers for them to use with their students or consolidate their own knowledge. Where credible and free-to-access resources already exist, we have compiled a directory of these to save teachers time and energy. We have sprinkled real-world food science and technology examples into the resources to help teachers bring food science to life.

Our resources can be accessed using a simple search.

Find a mentor

As the voice of the food profession we recognise that we have a duty to promote scientific knowledge, offer-up an insight into the food sector, and set out some of the global food issues to help teachers equip their students, the next generation of food science and technology professionals, with the tools they need to tackle these important challenges head-on.

Teachers can search our directory of qualified and professionally recognised members who have been trained as mentors. Mentoring can be as simple as a one-off telephone call or email to help a teacher to deal with a particular topic, or as complex as a series of Skype sessions or classroom visits to help a teacher and their class navigate a section of the syllabus. Teachers in Scotland can also seek support directly through the Food and Drink (STEM) Ambassador Programme set up by FDF Scotland and Science Connects.