Pure Food Kids: A Recipe for Healthful Eating

1. Proudly presents: Pure Food Kids: A Recipe for Healthful Eating

3. _Name______________ School_____________ • Teacher ___________ Date_______________ • Food Knowledge Quiz • Pre-Workshop Quiz • Have you taken this class before? (check one) Yes___ No___ Don’t remember___ • 1. True or False: • A picture of fruit on a label means the food contains fruit. (circle one) True False • 2. What is a calorie? (circle the correct answer) • A measurement of fat • A measurement of energy • A vitamin • Don’t know • 3. About how many calories do you need in a day? (circle the most correct answer) • 1000 calories • 3500 calories • 2500 calories • Depends on your activity level • Don’t know • 4. Ingredients on a food label are listed: (circle the correct answer) • Randomly – in no special order • In order of least amount to greatest amount • In order of greatest amount to least amount • Don’t know • 5. Draw a line between the food additive on the left to the category on the right to which it belongs. • High Fructose Corn Syrup Preservative • Monosodium Glutamate Sweetener • F D & C Red #40 Flavor Enhancer • BHA/BHT Food Coloring

5. Let’s Be Food Detectives! What are they Selling us? Looking only at the front label of your packaged food: 1. Can your group find at least two things that make you think it’s healthy? 1. ____________________________________ 2. ____________________________________ 3. ____________________________________ 2. Who do you think the manufacturer is trying to get to buy it? (There can be more than one right answer) Adults? ___ Men? ____ Women? ____ Teenagers? ____ Kids? ____ Other? _____________________________________ 3. Can your group find at least two things that would make your group want to buy it? 1. ____________________________________ 2. ____________________________________ 3. ____________________________________

7. Nutrition Statement

8. Fats are vital! Good Fats – we need them • Unsaturated fats • Mono-unsaturated (more) • Poly-unsaturated (less) We need some • Saturated fats Bad Fats - we don’t need any! • Trans fats - Hydrogenated fats • Label can list 0 grams if <.5 grams per serving • Can lead to stroke and heart disease

9. Nutrition Statement

10. HELPS YOU POOP!!!

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13. Ingredient List Comparison Canned Chili Hearty Vegetable Chili INGREDIENTS: Water, beef, textured vegetable protein (soy flour, caramel color), dehydrated onions, tomato paste, corn flour, spices, salt, wheat flour enriched with (niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sugar, cornmeal, modified food starch, flavorings, monosodium glutamate, paprika, hydrolyzed soy protein, citric acid, extractives of paprika. INGREDIENTS: Tomatoes, kidney beans, black beans, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, onion, corn, cilantro, garlic, chili powder, vegetable oil, oregano, cumin, salt, black pepper

14. Let’s Be Food Detectives! Is It True? Look at the Nutrition Facts Statement to find the following: What is the serving size ? __________ weight in grams (for food) ___________g How many servings per container? ___________ Is it really how much you would eat or drink? YES NO How many grams of Trans Fat per serving? ___________ How many grams of sugar per serving? ___________  Look at the Ingredient List to find the following: Is the ingredient list: LONG SHORT Total Number of Ingredients __________ Do you understand MOST(90%) of the words? YES NO Does it have hydrogenated OR partially hydrogenated oil(TRANS FAT)? YES NO Is there anything that makes you go…HUH?? Why did they put that in my food? YES NO What is the first sweetener listed? _______________ What order in the list is the first sweetener listed? ____________ Does the flavor come from what you expected? YES NO Is this food as healthful as you first thought? YES NO

15. Let’s Be Chefs! • EVERYONE participates • Don’t touch the trays until given the O.K. • Wash your hands • Be clean! • Follow the instructions

16. Knife and Cooking Safety Respect the “imaginary line” around the burner! DON’T GOOF OFF with the knives! PLEASEclean up when finished

17. Team Recipe Hearty Vegetable Chili Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable or olive oil 1 cup whole-kernel corn (fresh or frozen) 1 cup chopped onion 1 Tablespoons chili powder 1 cup chopped green bell pepper 1 ½ teaspoons leaf oregano 1 cup chopped red pepper ¾ teaspoon ground cumin 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon sea salt 28 oz. whole peeled tomatoes ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper 1 can (15.25 oz.) kidney beans ½ bunch cilantro, chopped 1 can (15.25 oz.) black beans Onion and Garlic Cut the ends of the onion, cut the onion in half and peel of papery outer layer. Separate 4 cloves of garlic from bulb. Smash the cloves with side of knife. Peel the papery skin off the four cloves. Chop the onion into small pieces. Mince (chop very small) the garlic. Measure 1 cup of onion, put into larger bowl. Put garlic onto smaller bowl. Red Pepper and Spices Wash the red pepper. Quarter the pepper and remove the seeds. Throw way seeds. Chop red pepper into ½ inch pieces. Measure 1 cup of red pepper into larger bowl. Measure oregano and cumin, put into the small bowl Please do not mix spice in with the peppers. Green Pepper and Spices Wash green pepper. Halve the pepper and remove the seeds. Throw way seeds. Cut each half in half again. Chop green pepper into ½ inch pieces. Measure 1 cup of green pepper into larger bowl. Measure chili powder, salt, and pepper, place together in smaller bowl and stir. Please do not mix spice in with the peppers. Beans and Tomatoes Open both cans of beans; take to sink with strainer and one bowl. Over sink, put into a strainer and rinse. Pour beans into a bowl. Rinse strainer. Open tomato can. Drain the tomatoes through strainer over other bowl. Save the juice the tomatoes are in. Pull the tomatoes out of the juices and chop them into bite sized pieces. Place tomato pieces in with the juices in bowl. Cilantro and Corn Wash cilantro. Pat the cilantro dry between some paper towels. If it is too wet, it will stick to the knife. Pick cilantro leaves off of stems and place leaves on cutting board. Throw stems away. Coarsely chop cilantro leaves into small pieces. Place in small bowl. Using safety scissors, cut corner off of corn bag and measure 1 cup of corn, place in separate small bowl.

19. Food Additives Hydrogenated Oils (Trans Fats) High Fructose Corn Syrup Artificial Colors What are food additives? Why are food additives added to packaged goods? Are all food additives bad? Artificial Sweeteners Hydrolyzed Proteins Nitrates & Nitrites Calcium Disodium (EDTA) Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) Sulfur Dioxide Sodium Benzoate Sulfites

20. Sweeteners • What are sweeteners? • Things like High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Fruit Concentrates, Sucrose, Glucose (anything that ends with ‘ose – rhymes with Gross!) • Artificial Sweeteners like - Splenda (Surcalose) and Aspartame (Nutrasweet) • Why are they bad for me? • Excess sugars contribute to: • Obesity • Type II Diabetes

21. Flavor and Texture Enhancers What? Natural and Artificial Flavorings, Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Salt, Hydrogenated Oils • Why are they bad for me? • Natural Gas is the major source of • “Artificial Flavor” • MSG may be addicting, may cause health problems • Many people are allergic to MSG • Hydrogenated Oils are Trans-fats

22. Food Coloring What? Things like Red #40, Blue Lake #1, Yellow #5 Where do they come from? All FD & C colors are made from Petroleum or coal tar Some made from seeds, vegetables or bugs

23. Preservatives What? Stuff like Sodium Citrate, TBHQ, BHA, BHT, and Benzoates • Why are they bad for me? • Some have been linked to cancer and other diseases • Some are just fine

24. Nutritional Supplements What? Stuff like Riboflavin, Vitamin C and Vitamin B1 Where do they come from? Some are derived from nature, but usually come from man-made chemicals

25. Food Additives What’s Really in There 1. Find up to two Sweeteners (inpink) 1. _______________________________________ 2. _______________________________________ How many total Sweeteners found? ____ 2. Find up to two Flavor or Texture Enhancers (in green or blue) 1. _______________________________________ 2. _______________________________________ 3. Find up to two Preservatives (in gray or blue) 1. _______________________________________ 2. _______________________________________ 4. Find up to two Food Colorings (in red) 1. _______________________________________ 2. _______________________________________ 5. Find up to two Nutritional Supplements (in yellow) 1. _______________________________________ 2. _______________________________________

27. Name_____________________ School___________________ Teacher___________________ Date ____________________ Food Knowledge Quiz Post-Workshop Have you taken this class before? (check one) Yes___ No___ Don’t remember ___ • True or False: A picture of fruit on a label means the food contains fruit. (circle one) True False 2. What is a calorie? (circle the correct answer) • A measurement of fat • A measurement of energy • A vitamin • Don’t know 3. About how many calories do you need in a day? (circle the most correct answer) • 1000 calories • 3500 calories • 2500 calories • Depends on your activity level • Don’t know 4. Ingredients on a food label are listed: (circle the correct answer) • Randomly – in no special order • In order of least amount to greatest amount • In order of greatest amount to least amount • Don’t know • Draw a line between the food additive on the left to the category on the right to which it belongs. High Fructose Corn Syrup Preservative Monosodium Glutamate Sweetener F D & C Red #40 Flavor Enhancer BHA/BHT Food Coloring 6. Do you feel like you learned something in this class? (circle one) I didn’t learn much I learned a lot 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7. How would you rate this class? (circle one) I didn’t’ like the class I really liked the class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

28. What Did We Learn Today?