Food Science: What Ingredients Do

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GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition revision diagram on Food Science: What Ingredients Do. Curriculum-mapped and ready to use at home or in class.

Format: Vocabulary and Facts
Subject: Food Preparation and Nutrition
Level: ks4
Typical time: 20 minutes

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Three activity prompts

Prompt: Colour-code and annotate denaturation, coagulation, gluten formation, gelatinisation, caramelisation, dextrinisation, aeration, emulsification and enzymic browning.
Answer guidance: Food Preparation and Nutrition thinking for Food Science: What Ingredients Do: Name the details you notice, label the important parts and explain one connection in your own words. Support the explanation with something visible on the sheet, then ask one question that would deepen the learning.
Prompt: Start with the title words “Food Science: What Ingredients Do”. Say what each word suggests in Food Preparation and Nutrition, write one question you expect the sheet to explore, and choose three precise words you will try to use in your explanation.
Answer guidance: For this vocabulary-and-facts sheet, cover each label after reading it, retrieve it from memory and use it in a sentence about Food Science: What Ingredients Do. Sort the words into groups that make sense to you, then explain the rule used for the grouping.
Prompt: Afterwards, describe one choice you made, one idea you can now explain and one part you would revisit.
Answer guidance: Check the finished response against the original activity instruction. Look for an explained choice, accurate Food Preparation and Nutrition language connected to Food Science: What Ingredients Do, and one specific improvement to make next.

What you’ll learn

Use this Vocabulary and Facts to practise and consolidate Food Preparation and Nutrition knowledge and skills at ks4. Return to it as often as your access allows to build confidence and fluency.

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GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition revision diagram on Food Science: What Ingredients Do. Curriculum-mapped and ready to use at home or in class.

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