UNIT 5 – TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS for BETTER HEALTH and
FOOD PRODUCTION
RESOURCES:
AQA Textbook pages 284 - 289
CLASSWORK / HOMEWORK (Answer in complete sentences to aid your revision)
NUTRITIONAL MODIFICATION:
1. Why might food manufacturers modify the nutritional profile of foods?
To make them meet the requirement of current dietary requirements (e.g.
increasing dietary fibre intake), or to help provide a health benefit.
FORTIFICATION:
2. What does this term mean?
Adding extra nutrients to a food product during its manufacture
3. How is fortification controlled?
By law
4. Which rules do manufacturers have to follow in regard to fortification?
i) Cannot say that the product can cure/prevent/treat disease
ii) Can say that the product provides health benefits.
FOOD PRODUCTION
RESOURCES:
AQA Textbook pages 284 - 289
CLASSWORK / HOMEWORK (Answer in complete sentences to aid your revision)
NUTRITIONAL MODIFICATION:
1. Why might food manufacturers modify the nutritional profile of foods?
To make them meet the requirement of current dietary requirements (e.g.
increasing dietary fibre intake), or to help provide a health benefit.
FORTIFICATION:
2. What does this term mean?
Adding extra nutrients to a food product during its manufacture
3. How is fortification controlled?
By law
4. Which rules do manufacturers have to follow in regard to fortification?
i) Cannot say that the product can cure/prevent/treat disease
ii) Can say that the product provides health benefits.
