S3 - Standard Grade Unit 2: Current Dietary Advice

Current Dietary Advice Learning Intentions: Go over our Scottish Dietary Targets Think about ways we can meet them

Fruit and Vegetables Eat More Intake to Double 400g a Day

How can we eat more fruit and vegetables? Add extra vegetables to soups and stews Make smoothies out of different types of fruit Add extra vegetables as toppings to pizzas Use fruit or vegetables as snacks more often

Bread Eat More Intake to increase, using Wholemeal and Brown Bread Increase by 45%

How can we eat more bread? Use bread in baking e.g. in crumbles or puddings Eat more wholemeal bread in sandwiches or rolls Snack on bread instead of biscuits

Breakfast Cereal Eat More Intake to double 34g per day

How can we eat more breakfast cereals? Have an extra bowl of cereals in the evening as a snack Add cereals to baking Eat more wholemeal, lower sugar cereals like weetabix

Total Complex Carbohydrates Eat more fruit and vegetables, bread, breakfast cereals, rice and pasta as well as potatoes. Intake to increase by a ¼ Intake to increase by 25% Potato consumption to increase by 25%

How can we eat more TCC foods? Eat more pasta, rice more often Eat more fruit and vegetables Eat more potatoes

Fish Eat more, especially oily fish Intake of White fish maintained Intake of Oily fish to double Intake 88g Oily fish per week

How can we eat more fish? Use as fillings in sandwiches etc. Try out some fish recipes-Tuna pasta

Salt Eat less Average intake to reduce Reduce to 6g per day

How can we eat less salt? Do not add any at the table Look for low salt products Use fresh herbs etc. to flavour foods instead of salt Add less salt when cooking Buy less processed foods as these are usually high in salt

Sugar Adult intake not to increase Child intake to reduce by ½ Specifically: Non-Milk Extrinsic (NME) sugars In children less than 10% of energy

How can we eat less sugar Add less when cooking Cut back on fizzy drinks and sweets Look for products that have less sugar in them Buy less processed foods as these are usually high in sugar

Fat Eat Less, especially saturated. Total fat to be reduced. Saturated fat to be reduced. Total fat reduced to 35% of food energy. Saturated fat reduced to 11% of food energy.

How can we eat less fat Cut off visible fat from bacon and chops Grill instead of frying food Use spray oil when cooking-lower in fat Use chicken and pork rather than red meat-lower in fat

Breastfeeding More mothers to breastfeed babies Encouraged to breastfeed in the first 6 weeks of baby’s life Proportion of mothers doing so should be more than 50%

Re-cap Increasing Intakes Fruit and Vegetables Bread Fish Breakfast Cereal Total Complex Carbohydrates Decreasing Intakes Salt Fat Sugar

Ask the Dietician??? There are 7 Dieticians in the Class, each dietician has a specialism in a dietary target, your job is to visit each dietician to find out ways to help you reach these dietary targets.

Adapt a Recipe... Study the ingredients for a Cheese Soufflé. Thinking about the Scottish Dietary Targets, suggest how they could be adapted to make a healthier version.

Adapt a Recipe... Cheese Soufflé IngredientsAdaptionReason 25g Margarine 200ml Full Cream Milk 50g Cheddar Cheese 25g Plain Flour 3 Eggs Pinch Salt