What's on a label?
How to read food labels, for Junior Cycle and Transition Year Home Economics
This resource is aimed at Junior Cycle and Transition Year Home Economics. It also supports the Social Personal Health Education curriculum. It allows you and your students to keep up to date on food labelling, is packed with practical examples and is designed to be help students learn in an engaging and interactive way.
Junior cycle
Topic 1 - Food labelling requirements
- Activity Sheets: Find the 11 pieces of mandatory information on a food pack (Interactive PDF)
- Classroom Slides (PDF, 2MB)
- Teacher's Notes (PDF, 2MB)
Topic 2 - Voluntary labelling and claims
- Activity Sheets: Identify foods that make different nutrition claims (Interactive PDF, 100KB)
- Classroom Slides (PDF, 800KB)
- Teacher's Notes (PDF, 600KB)
Topic 3 - Healthy eating information and reducing food waste
- Activity Sheets: The food groups and reference daily intakes (PDF, 300KB)
- Classroom Slides (PDF, 2MB)
- Information Sheet (PDF, 1.5KB)
- Teacher's Notes (PDF, 2MB)
Transition year
Topic 1 - Food labelling and healthy eating
- Activity Sheets: Identify the foods from the ingredients (PDF, 200KB)
- Classroom Slides (PDF, 1.2MB)
- Teacher's Notes (PDF, 900KB)
Topic 2 - Voluntary labelling and claims
- Activity Sheets: Nutrition and health claims (PDF, 100KB)
- Classroom Slides (PDF, 1MB)
- Information Sheet (PDF, 200KB)
- Teacher's Notes (PDF, 800KB)
Topic 3 - Food labelling and food safety
- Activity Sheets: Match the foods with the allergen (PDF, 500KB)
- Classroom Slides (PDF, 1MB)
- Teacher's Notes (PDF, 1MB)
As Gaeilge
safefood wishes to acknowledge input from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, The Irish Nutrition and Dietetics Institute and teacher Siobhan Foster in the development of the resource.