Balanced Diet & Food Groups
Distinguish food groups from nutrients. Food groups are the groups of foods in a healthy-eating guide; choose a variety of foods from each group in suitable proportions using the applicable local healthy-eating guide (e.g. in Australia, the five food groups of the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating). Foods supply nutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre), and with water these provide energy, materials for growth and repair, and help the body work properly and resist illness
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Balanced Diet & Food Groups means distinguishing food groups from nutrients and choosing a variety of foods in suitable proportions. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes sorting food-group cards and naming what nutrients help with, then checking one fresh card.
Distinguish food groups from nutrients and explain why foods can supply several nutrients.
Distinguish food groups from nutrients and explain why foods can supply several nutrients.
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Basic Nutrition
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- Sort everyday foods into the food groups of the local healthy-eating guide (e.g. the five groups of the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating: vegetables and legumes/beans; fruit; grain (cereal) foods; lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beans; milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or alternatives)
- Explain that carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and fibre are nutrients found in foods, not food groups, and say what carbohydrates (energy), proteins (growth and repair), fats (energy and warmth) and vitamins and minerals (help the body work properly and resist illness) do
- Choose a day's meals with a variety of foods from every group in the local guide in proportions that match the guide (e.g. plenty of vegetables and grain foods), with water as the main drink
“Looking at a dinner plate, can your child sort the foods into food groups like vegetables, fruit and grain foods — and explain that nutrients such as protein help the body grow and repair while carbohydrates give energy?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- The Human Body
- Age range
- Ages 6–12
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