← 1.5 Nutritive Value of Foods
Reading food labels
Home Science · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
How to read a Kenyan packet for ingredients, fortification, KEBS mark, expiry, storage and the nutrition table.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Food nutrients and their roles
- Balanced meals, fortification and deficiencies
- Carbohydrates in Kenyan staples
- Proteins from milk, eggs, omena and beans
- Fats and oils in the diet
- Vitamins from sukuma, mango and other greens and fruit
- Mineral salts, water and fibre
- Classifying Kenyan foods into groups
- Reading food labels
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Fortification and enrichment in Kenya
- Planning balanced Kenyan meals