Healthy food VS Unhealthy food Click on the titles to learn more about each type of food

Healthy food

VS

Unhealthy foodClick on the titles to learn more

about each type of food.

Healthy Food

Food PyramidAccording to the website faqs.orgThe food pyramid represents how much food people need from each of the six categories. Each group is equally important, but people need food items from the base in larger amounts than food items that are close to the top of the pyramid. The food pyramid emphasizes the following key points:Eat a variety of foods every day. Choose foods with less fat and sugar. Eat plenty of whole grain foods (for example, cereals or rice), fruits and vegetables (preferably raw).

Click on the fish and solve the exercise.

Types of healthy foodFor information and exercises about each food, click on each of the titles:• Fruits

• Vegetables

• Whole Grains

• Dairy Products

• Poultry, Meat, and EggsIf you have doubts about any word related to food, you can click on the vegetables and consult the online dictionary at Nourishinteractive.

After you work with healthy food…

Click on the food items in order to play the three memory games under the title ‘Matching Games’.

Unhealthyfood

Unhealthy food includes…• Fats•Sugars•Cholesterol•Salt

REMEMBER: You needa small amount of them.

The food labelIt contains the necessary nutritional information for a food product. It is essential to read it to know how many calories, fats, sugar, cholesterol, fibers, vitamins each serving of the product contains. To learn more about it, press on the food label’s image. Then, click here to work on the wiki webpage, under the title ‘Let’s Read Food Labels!!!’

Let’s practise what we learnt about food…

Click on the food items and play with the food to remember which food items are healthy and which are unhealthy.

Some Extra Work!

Click on the lettuce in order to access the ‘Foodlearning’ blog. There, you can find games to practise healthy and unhealthy food and some information of your interest to work with.