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FOOD – WHAT’S IN IT?
Food is comprised of many distinct chemical substances which can broadly be divided into nutritional and non-nutritional components.(6-8)
Nutritional components
Nutrients are chemical substances in the food we eat that interact within the body and are needed throughout the whole of life. There are six main types of nutrients in foods, divided into 2 main groups. Continue reading “Food. What’s in it?”
Good food, bad foods
When my eldest son was about seven years old, he came to me distressed about a school project on food. He had learned from his teacher that brightly coloured vegetables and fruit were good foods. He had also learned fatty snacks such as crisps, and confectionery were bad foods. His distress was that he didn’t know how to classify many of the foods our family were eating. He wanted to know whether we ate good or bad foods.
There was a background to his question. Continue reading “Good foods, bad foods”
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