Food for Thought

Today we had our Food for Thought classroom lesson. The first part of the lesson was about sugar in drinks. It turned out the the drink with the most sugar was lemon, lime and bitters! Of course Coke and V came next. We learned that the caffeine in drinks like V actually stops kids' bodies from absorbing calcium from milk and dairy products. So that's a big fat no to energy drinks.

The second part of the lesson was to do with the food pyramid. We knew heaps about that already, which was great.

In the last part we learned how to read the labels on packaging to find out if it is healthy or not. Healthy food has less than 10g of sugar, less that 10g of fat, less that 400mg of sodium and more than 6g of fibre per 100g. It's important to make sure we read the "per 100g" column when we look for the nutritional information.

After all this we checked out our lunch boxes and put each food item on the food pyramid. It turns out that most of our lunches are really healthy. It was great to see that there were not many packaged foods in Rm 23.

Next week we get to try out our label reading skills at a real supermarket. Then we get a $60 voucher and we can plan a healthy lunch for our class to eat. Awesome!