Health and Wellbeing

In term 2 as part of our Health and Wellbeing topic we have been researching a balanced diet by investigating the 5 food groups.  This week we have been learning about foods that are high in fats and sugars.

We considered how much sugar and salt is in different foods.

 

 

We looked food and drink labels and found how much sugar / salt was in each item.

Then we weighed out the amount of sugar / salt on a set of scales. 

We made sure it said '0' on the scales before we added the sugar so it was fair.

Sometimes we had to use a calculator to check how much sugar was in the food / drink as the label only told us the amount in 100g!

 We were shocked to find out how much sugar and salt was in each of these items.

We thought strawberry jam would be healthy because it has fruit in it, but it was the food / drink that had the most amount of sugar!!

After reading the label we learned that it has a lot more sugar than fruit.