Download Scottish Dietary Targets

S3 - Standard Grade
Unit 2: Current Dietary Advice
Current Dietary Advice
Learning Intentions:
• Go over our Scottish Dietary Targets
• Think about ways we can meet them
Fruit and Vegetables
Eat More
Intake to Double
400g a Day
How can we eat more fruit and
vegetables?
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Add extra vegetables to soups and stews
Make smoothies out of different types of fruit
Add extra vegetables as toppings to pizzas
Use fruit or vegetables as snacks more often
Bread
Eat More
Intake to increase, using
Wholemeal and Brown Bread
Increase by 45%
How can we eat more bread?
• Use bread in baking e.g. in crumbles or
puddings
• Eat more wholemeal bread in sandwiches
or rolls
• Snack on bread instead of biscuits
Breakfast Cereal
Eat More
Intake to double
34g per day
How can we eat more breakfast
cereals?
• Have an extra bowl of cereals in the
evening as a snack
• Add cereals to baking
• Eat more wholemeal, lower sugar cereals
like weetabix
Total Complex
Carbohydrates
Eat more fruit and vegetables, bread,
breakfast cereals, rice and pasta as well
as potatoes.
Intake to increase by a ¼
Intake to increase by 25%
Potato consumption to increase by 25%
How can we eat more TCC foods?
• Eat more pasta, rice more often
• Eat more fruit and vegetables
• Eat more potatoes
Fish
Eat more, especially oily fish
Intake of White fish maintained
Intake of Oily fish to double
Intake 88g Oily fish per week
How can we eat more fish?
• Use as fillings in sandwiches etc.
• Try out some fish recipes-Tuna pasta
Salt
Eat less
Average intake to reduce
Reduce to 6g per day
How can we eat less salt?
• Do not add any at the table
• Look for low salt products
• Use fresh herbs etc. to flavour foods
instead of salt
• Add less salt when cooking
• Buy less processed foods as these are
usually high in salt
Sugar
Adult intake not to increase
Child intake to reduce by ½
Specifically: Non-Milk Extrinsic
(NME) sugars
In children less than 10% of
energy
How can we eat less sugar
• Add less when cooking
• Cut back on fizzy drinks and sweets
• Look for products that have less sugar
in them
• Buy less processed foods as these are
usually high in sugar
Fat
Eat Less, especially saturated.
Total fat to be reduced.
Saturated fat to be reduced.
Total fat reduced to 35% of food
energy.
Saturated fat reduced to 11% of
food energy.
How can we eat less fat
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Cut off visible fat from bacon and chops
Grill instead of frying food
Use spray oil when cooking-lower in fat
Use chicken and pork rather than red
meat-lower in fat
Breastfeeding
More mothers to breastfeed
babies
Encouraged to breastfeed in the
first 6 weeks of baby’s life
Proportion of mothers doing so
should be more than 50%
Re-cap
Increasing Intakes
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Decreasing Intakes
Fruit and Vegetables • Salt
Bread
• Fat
Fish
• Sugar
Breakfast Cereal
Total Complex
Carbohydrates
Ask the Dietician???
There are 7 Dieticians in the Class,
each dietician has a specialism in
a dietary target, your job is to
visit each dietician to find out
ways to help you reach these
dietary targets.
Adapt a Recipe...
Study the ingredients for a Cheese
Soufflé.
Thinking about the Scottish Dietary
Targets, suggest how they could be
adapted to make a healthier
version.
Adapt a Recipe...
Cheese Soufflé
Ingredients
25g Margarine
200ml Full Cream
Milk
50g Cheddar
Cheese
25g Plain Flour
3 Eggs
Pinch Salt
Adaption
Reason