Reference Intake

September 6, 2023

YouTube videos Nutrition Program for NEA2

These are videos I made some years ago for workshops to show how to use the Nutrition Program

They are all useful for steps for NEA 2 and give you great Food and Nutrition GCSE results!

Note – some sites don’t like links to YouTube so copy the URL and post in Google.

How to carry out nutritional analysis of a recipe

How to make the recipe healthier

How to write the recipe method

How to find the portion size

How to cost a recipe

Nutrition Program for sensory analysis

My book Food Preparation Assessment Task NEA 2 will be available from mid September 2023

January 16, 2020

Reference Intake RI

A voluntary UK front of pack Nutrition Labelling Scheme from 19/6/2013 uses Reference Intake information RI – this was known as Guideline Daily Amount GDA

It shows levels of energy, fat, saturates, sugar and salt in red, amber or green if the traffic light system is used.

RIs for fat, saturates, sugars and salt are the maximum amounts that should be consumed in a day. These figures are based on an average sized woman, doing an average amount of physical activity.

The RIs are defined in a new piece of legislation called the Food Information to Consumers Regulation.

You can download the document on this link.

The Regulation provides RIs for use on a label for Energy kJ, kcal, fat, saturates, (total) sugars,  and salt and these are the same as the current ‘adult’ GDA values, with the exception of
protein which has changed from 45g to 50g and
carbohydrate which has changed from 230g to 260g.

The Nutrition Program shows the Reference Intake on a recipe as a %.

Put your recipe in My Recipes and go to Nutrition and see the chart.

This is a recipe for Vegan lasagne and you can see that it supplies plenty of protein – 59%

November 23, 2018

Using the Nutrition Program for NEA 2

My resource for Food Preparation Assessment Task NEA 2 will be available as download mid September.

This shows how the Nutrition Program cab be used for different sections of the Tasks.

If you are a Nutrition Program subscriber, email us for a free copy.

key words NEA 2

Key words used in NEA 2

The chart shows key phrases from exam boards for NEA 2 where The Nutrition Program can be used.

  • The exam boards have similar points to cover
  • Research to find dishes that fit the task –
  • Explain how the dishes meet nutritional needs –
  • Look at Traffic Lights,
  • Reference Intake RI, and if they fit with a meal.
  • Look at sensory properties – use The Nutrition Program to draw up a Star Profile.
  • Carry out nutritional analysis of dishes – produce a food label using Nutrition Program
  • Portion control – see our worksheet for the Nutrition Program
  • Analyse the nutrition – annotate the food label.
  • Carry out sensory analysis and add tasters, then write evaluation – all done through Nutrition Program.
  • Use sensory descriptors – the Nutrition Program has a Tasting Word Bank
  • Cost the dish – the Nutrition Program has costs of ingredients
  • Conclude and think of improvements.

There are Step by Step links to each section of NEA2

April 23, 2018

How to show RI Reference Intake for recipes for GCSE

Step by step on how to use Nutrition Program to show nutritional value of recipes for different age groups.

I’ve chosen Fish cakes made with salmon and potato and served with tartar sauce.

First create the recipe in My Recipes. The Nutrition Program shows the nutrition for 100g and a portion. You can get this image by clicking Print.

You may want the cost of the recipe – just click Costs and do a screen grab.

 

 

Nutrition Program shows Costs for 100g, per portion and for the recipe

If you want to look at RI Reference Intake, go to Nutrition, scroll to bottom of screen and the bar chart pops up for RI woman, RI man and RI 5-10 year old.

Reference Intake bar chart

If you are making the dish for a child, teenager or adult, and you need the nutrition for that age group, go to My Meals.

Create a new meal – you could call it Fish Cakes – My example is for 11-14 year olds, Male, Lunch

 

Nutrition analysis teenager

In Find Recipe, add Fish cakes with tartar sauce which you saved in My Recipes.

Click Nutrition and you will see how the Fish cakes meet the needs of a meal. In this cake they provide 63% of meal intake which is good as you would serve other vegetables and a dessert or starter.

You can see from the traffic lights that this dish is a bit high in fat, so you can change the recipe.

March 30, 2017

Nutrient Requirement terms on Nutrition Program

These are abbreviations (acronyms) for Nutrition Requirement and the maths behind the RIs used on the Program

Reference Nutrient intakesThe ones we are using:

  1. Energy  EAR Reference Intake RI for food labelling 8400kJ 2000kcal
  2. Protein RI Reference Intake RI for food labelling 50g
  3. Carbohydrates DRV Total carbohydrates 50% daily food energy Reference Intake RI for food labelling 260g
  4. Total sugars Reference Intake RI for food labelling 90g
  5. Fat DRV not more than 35% daily food energy Reference Intake RI for food labelling 70g
  6. Saturated fat DRV not more than 11% daily food energy Reference Intake RI for food labelling 20g
  7. Fibre RI Recommended Intake up to 30g day
  8. Salt RNI Reference Intake RI for food labelling 6g
  9. RNI for vitamins and minerals now NRV on food label

NRV is a guideline of the minimum amount of a particular vitamin or mineral required by the average person to stay healthy

NRV minerals

NRV Vitamins

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