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Educational links

Useful links to Food Standards Agency material on healthy eating and preparing food safely.

Interactive resources

Food Hygiene Mission Control is an interactive resource for children aged 7 to 14 and their teachers. Through quizzes, games and fact pages it educates young people about food hygiene issues. The teachers' section contains downloadable activity sheets for further teaching.

FSA Wales 'Gimme 5!' features interactive computer games and screensavers aimed at girls and boys aged 11 to 14 years. Princess Sugabeat and Alf Alpha show users how to maximise their energy levels by eating a balanced, healthy diet incorporating plenty of fruit and veg.

FSA Wales also has a selection of interactive games about healthy eating and food safety.

Try the quiz on safe barbecue cooking that underlines the risks of undercooked meat and poor hygiene practices.

General materials

At 5-a-day the Bash Street way primary school teachers will find materials, advice and suggestions here to help them give pupils aged 7 to 11 (Key Stage 2 or P7 in Scotland) greater opportunities both to learn about and have access to fruit and vegetable choices. There are also details of how these materials fit with the school curriculum.

A history of our eating habits over the past 50 years.

There is also a wide range of information on healthy eating and food safety messages in the Ask an Expert section of the website.

Healthy eating material

Safer eating material

Advice on keeping food safe, especially in warmer weather.
How bugs cause food poisoning.
Information and advice on allergy and food intolerance.

 
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