Know your food Fruit and vegetables years

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1 Know your food Fruit and vegetables years

2 Fruit and vegetable tasting Aims of the session To explore the wide variety of different fruits and vegetables available. To taste and describe fruits and vegetables which are new and familiar. To develop thinking, speaking and listening skills and sensory vocabulary for tasting foods. To encourage children to eat 5 A DAY. To understand the range of fresh produce available in UK supermarkets grown in the UK and around the world. Suitable for all primary ages Curriculum links: science, design and technology, teamwork, communication, investigation. Estimated delivery time: 30 minutes. You can choose to focus on just fruits or just vegetables and run them as two separate tasting activities with your school. Outline of activities The main focus of this activity is to encourage children to explore the variety, taste, texture, colour and shapes of fruits and vegetables. 1. Children will be shown a range of fruit and vegetables. They will be asked to touch, feel and smell them and then describe the different products. 2. The children will then taste a selection of familiar and new products, discuss and describe them and fill in the activity sheet (Activity 1). 3. If time, the children can complete the quiz.

3 Estimated delivery time: 30 minutes Activity 1: Fruit and vegetable tasting What you will need Copies of the activity sheet and quiz Fruit and vegetable flashcards Cool box Sealed containers for the tasting samples Labels Knives, spoons, forks, cocktail sticks, tablecloths, disposable aprons, napkins, plastic cups, paper plates, bin bag for waste food Antibacterial spray, gel and cleaning cloths A selection of fruits and vegetables from the list below Preparation Select five or six products to prepare for the children to taste. Include something they will be less familiar with and one mystery item which they might not recognise raw, or are less likely to have tasted. Pick ones that you can cut up into pieces at the store in advance, that will not discolour (for example apples will go brown so you need to give them a squeeze of lemon juice if you want to taste them). Fruit Vegetables Apple (green, red, cooking), pear Salad cucumber, lettuce, red/yellow/ green peppers, avocado, celery, tomato (strictly speaking, it s a fruit, but we eat it as a vegetable) Citrus orange, satsuma, grapefruit, lemon, lime Dried Fruit raisins, apricots Exotic and Tropical banana, kiwi, melon, pineapple, paw paw, mango Grapes red, green Summer fruit (in season) peaches, nectarines, apricots, cherries, berries Greens broccoli, cabbage, sprouts, spinach, peas, green beans, mange tout, courgette Root Veg carrot, potatoes, parsnip, beetroot Onion and garlic Pumpkin, sweetcorn on the cob In-school KNOW your food FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TASTING

4 You could also take a pack of something frozen (e.g. peas, oven chips), in a tin (e.g. sweetcorn, fruit) or in a packet (crisps, dried fruit, bottle of squash or carton of juice) to show the produce in a more familiar format that they might have seen in their mum s shopping basket. Alternative ways to do your tasting: 1. Combining foods in recipes and asking them to guess the ingredients. Make a smoothie and ask the children to guess the flavours and ingredients. Include a coloured fruit. Make a fruit salad (include a mystery fruit) and take it with some yoghurt for children to try. Make fruit skewers. Thread different fruits onto wooden skewers or cocktail sticks using a selection of fruit to create layers of colours, shapes and sizes. Use some stir fry mixes, pre-prepared vegetables or coleslaw and get the children to identify the different vegetable pieces. 2. Item in the bag is a good activity where a child has a fruit or vegetable hidden in a bag, unseen by their partner, and they give clues about its colour, shape and taste, so that their partner guesses the item. This is good for developing vocabulary. How to run this session In advance Using good personal hygiene practices, wash and chop the fruits and vegetables to be tasted, put them into sealed containers and store them correctly. Prepare a label to go with each food i.e. FRUIT A, VEGETABLE B, FRUIT C Make sure you also bring an example of a whole unprepared and part-prepared fruit/ vegetable that is being tasted. Dips (yoghurt for fruit, mayonnaise, houmous, spicy dip for raw veg) are a good way to encourage them to try new things. Choose healthier alternatives. Before the children arrive Cover the tables with clean tablecloths. Set out your display. Lay out your tasting samples on plates with labels a, b, c etc. Put bite-size pieces on cocktail sticks for the teacher to give out to the children.

5 Activity 1. Introduce yourself and tell the children that they will be learning about fruits and vegetables from all around the world, and that you will be setting them a fun challenge to taste something new. 2. Show them your display. Then get them to sit in pairs or small groups, so they can help each other answer your questions. 3. Ask them some of these questions: Do they know why it is important for us to eat fruits and vegetables? How many can they name? How many have they tried in the display? Which ones are their favourites? Why do they like that so much? What do you think it looks like inside? Does this have pips, seeds, or something else inside? What might we have to do before we eat this? How do you prepare/cook it? What can they make with these ingredients? 4. Explain the tasting activity set some rules for tasting with the help of the teacher. Everyone is going to try a little piece, and to put it on the plate if they do not like it. 5. Words for tasting for younger children, read out the words on the activity sheet and ask them which ones best describe the products you are discussing. Ask older children to suggest words for taste, texture (what it feels like to hold or when chewing in the mouth), colour and shape. Older pupils will be able distinguish between the different categories (words for taste, words for texture). Ask them to write additional words they can think of on the sheet. 6. Guess the fruits/vegetables make this a guessing game. Ask the teacher to pass one item at a time around to the children so that they can try it. Ask them what they think it is and to describe it. Then they should put their answers on the activity sheet. Use simple language and demonstrate what you want them to do using one as an example with a group before starting. 7. Finally, ask the children to guess what each mystery food was. What have they learnt? Which foods did they like? Why did they like or dislike it? Which was their favourite? Who tasted something that was new? What have they learnt about trying new foods? In-school KNOW your food FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TASTING

6 Activity 1 sheet: Fruit and vegetable tasting Taste something new Try the mystery fruit or vegetables. Do you know what it is? If you like it, tell us why you do. If you don t like it, tell us why not. Can you describe the taste? texture? shape? colour? Here are some words that might help you to describe the foods. Can you think of some more words? Taste sweet, juicy, sour, fruity, bitter, fresh Texture crisp, crunchy, smooth, chewy, hard, soft Shape round, oval, long Colour yellow, red, orange, green, speckled In-school KNOW your food FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TASTING Xerox Code: CLSK012

7 Draw a picture of it Draw a picture of it Food A Food B Draw a picture of it Draw a picture of it Food C Food D Draw a picture of it Draw a picture of it Food E Food F My favourite is Xerox Code: CLSK012

8 Extension activities If you have time, you can do the quiz, or leave copies behind for the teacher to do it after your visit. Read out the quiz questions to the class. Tell the children not to shout out the answers as another team might hear the answer. Instead, they should write down their answers in the spaces provided on the activity sheet and select the correct picture from the images on the activity sheet. At the end, ask for the answers from the class and ask everyone to mark their own answers. Give the team/child with the most correct answers a clap for doing well or use your reward stickers. For older children, or if you have more time, you can extend this tasting activity by: Playing with the Fruit and Vegetable flashcards. Split children into four groups and select a leader for each. Give each seven cards. The leader holds up the card and shows the group the picture. The rest of the group have to guess the information on the reverse. Talking about and tasting some of the selection of packaged products you have brought, so that they can see how processing can change the taste and texture. Many children will be interested to understand how raisins are linked to grapes. Some children may not like pickled beetroot, but like fresh beetroot. The objective is to ask children to try new things or versions of the same thing (grapes/raisins), as they might like them. Answers to the quiz: 1. C Brussels sprouts 2. G Carrot 3. J Banana 4. A Orange 5. B Cabbage 6. F Grape 7. D Potato 8. I Cauliflower 9. E Lemon 10. H Peas In-school KNOW your food FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TASTING Xerox Code: CLSK013

9 1 Extension activity: Fruit and vegetable quiz See if you can work out which fruit or vegetable is being described and fill in the answer in the space provided. See if you can match the pictures to the descriptions. I grow in winter and I am famous for being eaten at Christmas. I am small, round and green. People love or hate me. I grow on a stem. I need to be cooked. 2 I am grown in the summer and autumn but I am eaten all year round. I am long and orange in colour. I can be eaten raw in salads or with dips but I m also delicious cooked. B A G 3 I grow in a hot country. I am long and yellow and curved. Lots of children like me. You need to take my skin off to eat me. I taste delicious in smoothies. C J 4 I am round and orange. I grow on a tree. You need to peel me to eat me. I make delicious juice for breakfast and some people make me into marmalade. A:... In-school KNOW your food FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TASTING Xerox Code: CLSK013

10 9 5 7 I am leafy and green or white. I get chopped up to make coleslaw. Some people like me cooked too. I am grown mostly in winter and spring. I am an oval-shaped vegetable which grows underground. I have a brown skin which usually gets peeled off at home. I grow in the UK. You can fry me, bake me, boil me and roast me. I am very good for making crisps. I contain lots of vitamin C. I am supposed to be the UK s favourite vegetable. I am yellow and oval in shape. I grow in a warm country and need lots of sunshine. I taste bitter. Grown ups sometimes slice me up to put in their drinks. I m a very popular flavour for fizzy drinks. 10 D 6 8 I am round and can be purple or green. I am juicy to eat and sometimes have pips. I grow on a vine. When I m dried I m called a raisin. I am also used to make wine. My season is autumn. I am called a flower but I am not a garden flower. I am a vegetable. I have green leaves on my outside. You eat the white part of me which is shaped like trees. E F I am green and grow in a pod in most parts of the UK. My season is summer. At home you usually need to store me in the freezer. I am often eaten with fish and chips, the Sunday roast or in curries. I H Xerox Code: CLSK013