Nutrients and Food Groups
by Anonymous
Sort foods into the five food groups, fill a balanced lunch tray, and uncover the sugar cubes hiding in drinks.
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About this app
Nutrients and Food Groups is an interactive health education app for learning how foods fit into five groups based on the jobs they do in the body. Children can identify foods, fill a five-section meal tray with variety, and compare the hidden sugar in common drinks using sugar cubes and approximate grams.
Use cases
- Elementary students learning basic nutrition
- Teachers introducing the five food groups
- Families discussing balanced meals
- Children comparing sugar in drinks
Features
- Food classification into five functional groups
- Interactive tray-filling activity with five sections
- Challenges for filling the tray evenly or repeating groups
- Drink sugar comparison using sugar-cube counts and grams
- Examples including rice, bread, meat, eggs, vegetables, fruit, milk, water, juice, soda, and milk tea
- Reset and next-step controls with optional sound