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KS4 Design and Technology

Learn how to be creative in planning, designing and be a problem solver in science.

This page contains resoucres for the subject of design and technology with a focus on food preparation and nutrition:

  1. Nutrition - recommended guidelines for healthy diet, recommended energy provided by protein, fat and carbohydrates, specific functions, main sources, dietary reference values and consequences of malnutrition of macronutrients and micronutrients, calculating energy and nutritional values and plan recipes, meals and diets, major diet related health risks, importance of hydration
  2. Food - food provenance (how food are grown, how processing affects the sensory and nutritional properties of ingredients, impact of food and food security, technological developments, development of a culinary tradition), food choice (sensory perception, qualities, range of factors influencing food choices, food availability)
  3. Cooking and food preparation - scientific principles underlying the preparation and cooking of food, and preparation and cooking techniques

More Information

(Please note the links below may not reflect on all the topics listed above)

Processing and vitamin content in cabbage - http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry/resource/res00000569/the-hunt-for-vitamin-c-the-effect-of-cooking-processes-on-the-vitamin-c-content-of-cabbage

Food integrity - http://understandingfoodadditives.org.uk/pages/Ch3p2.htm

Case studies on recalls - https://www.tutor2u.net/_legacy/assets/cafe/0906_cadburys.pdf

Food fraud - http://food.cieh.org/nut_contamination_risk_and_complexity_in_supply_chain.html?RequestId=796a64ff

Preservatives - http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/practical-biology/preserving-food

Food safety and spoilage - http://meatandeducation.redmeatinfo.com/resources/gcse-support/food-science-and-safety/food-safety-and-spoilage

HACCP - https://www.stem.org.uk/uxbj67

Additive safety - http://understandingfoodadditives.org.uk/pages/Ch3p1.htm

Dairy processing - https://answers.practicalaction.org/our-resources/item/dairy-processing

Chicken and microbes - https://thecrunch.wellcome.ac.uk/schools-and-colleges/its-the-small-things

New proteins - http://beaconwales.org/uploads/resources/Muyiwa_Akintoye_QUORN.pdf

Barrier technologies - http://www.aqualab.com/education/moisture-migration/

Golden rice - http://www.goldenrice.org/Content3-Why/why4_facts.php

Biofortified sorghum - https://farmingfirst.org/2011/01/fighting-poor-nutrition-with-biofortified-sorghum/

Biofortification - http://www.harvestplus.org/biofortification-nutrition-revolution-now

CO2 footprint - http://www.carbonpartners.org.uk/resources

Strawberries - http://www.sustainability-ed.org.uk/support_materials/LCA%20strawberries.pdf

Peas food story - http://discovering-our-countryside.co.uk/peas/

Videos explaining how certain foods grow - http://www.howgrow.org/foods

Sensory properties - http://meatandeducation.redmeatinfo.com/resources/gcse-support/food-science-and-safety/sensory-properties

Factors affecting food choice - http://meatandeducation.redmeatinfo.com/resources/gcse-support/food-choice/factors-affecting-food-choice

Food waste - http://www.countrysideclassroom.org.uk/storage/resource/downloads/43d2cea6-3a7a-46f7-a85e-e776686c6f23/original/food-waste-1-1.pdf

Global food system - http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/food-for-thought

Malnutrition - https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/MalnutritionFactSheet.pdf

Diabetes - https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/diabetestype2.pdf

Hypertension - https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/hypertension.pdf

Healthy hydration guide - https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthyliving/hydration/healthy-hydration-guide

Dehydration in the elderly - https://www.nutrition.org.uk/nutritionscience/life/dehydrationelderly.html

Supplements overview - https://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/supplements.pdf

The power of school meals - http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/communications/wfp250490.pdf

Iodine deficiences in China - https://farmingfirst.org/2011/02/fighting-iodine-deficiencies-in-china-through-fertilizer-and-irrigation/

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