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Food Unit Guide

This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered:
* The concept of foods as mixtures of chemical substances
* A comparison of foods and fuels
* The energy content of different foods
* The role and importance of food in our diet.

Core contents
F1: What’s in food?
F2: Do snack meals contain all the foods we need?
F3: Why do we eat food?
F4: Which foods give us most energy?
F5: Do slimmers’ foods give us less energy?
F6: How do we preserve foods?

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