What s in your bowl? How many breakfasts can you name that contain..
Rice
Corn
Wheat
Oats
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What s in your bowl? Breakfast is really important! Just think - when you wake up in the morning, your last meal was probably more than 10 hours ago! American doctors claim eating breakfast is the secret to staying healthy. They say skipping the first meal of the day increases the chances of becoming obese or developing diabetes.
Diet concerns
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What s in your bowl? Cereals are the most popular breakfast in the UK. What percentage of your class have breakfast cereal in the cupboard at home? What is the average number of cereal packets that your class has at home? What proportion of your class ate breakfast this morning?
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What s in your bowl?
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Specifying the Problem
Cereals are the most popular breakfast in the UK – 98% of households buy breakfast cereals. On average, each household has 5 packets of cereal (either opened or unopened) in the cupboards. Yet 1 in 5 children are skipping breakfast and going to school on an empty stomach! (SportAtSchool early results 2011) How does your class compare? Example statistics
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What s in your bowl? It s not just eating breakfast that s important… important …what what ss in your breakfast breakfast––the thenutritional nutritionalcontent contentof ofcereal cereals is is important too. too Lots of doctors and dieticians are worried about what s in cereals that are popular with children. Which cereals are most popular with children? What might doctors and dieticians be worried about? What do you think these cereals contain too much or too little of? Current concerns
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What s in your bowl? Parts of a breakfast cereal
Salt
Sugar*
Protein
Fat
Fibre
(Bran)
*Carbohydrates
General term for all types of sugar (including starch) found in wheat, oats, rice and corn.
Typical contents of cereals
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What s in your bowl?
Human proportions
Parts of a breakfast cereal Boxes always have info for 100g portions.
Can you judge if the amount of salt, sugar or fibre is enough or too little/much from just this label? A new set of labels has been designed to help…. Labels on cereals
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What s in your bowl? Traffic Light System
Salt per 100g
Bad
Good 1¼g
Sugar per 100g 6g Traffic Light System
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What s in your bowl? Using the Traffic Light System Traffic Light labelling is currently a possible system. If it were to be used how many cereals would score well and how many badly? Would it help people to make healthy choices? Is there really that much difference between cereals? To look at some of these issues we will use the Problem Solving Approach… Some issues for the system
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We report back what we found – and compare it to what we expected.
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Then we examine our data and make it easier to understand.
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First we decide what problem to solve and what data we need
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Then we collect suitable data. Problem Solving Approach
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What s in your bowl? Which cereals do you want to investigate? A particular type of cereal By type
The most popular cereals By popularity
e.g. rice-based
A choice of problems
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What s in your bowl? Oats, Wheat, Corn or Rice? Which type of cereal will you investigate (Oats, Wheat, Corn, or Rice)? What is the average content of salt, fibre and sugar for this cereal type (across all brands) ? Is there a brand which is all red? Is there a brand which is all green? Next Oats, Wheat, Corn or Rice
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What s in your bowl? Favourite cereals Which cereals are most popular with children? Why? What is the average content of salt, fibre and sugar for these cereals? What is the range of contents? What traffic lights labels would you give the most popular cereals?
Favourite Cereals
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What s in your bowl? Which data should we collect?
How big a sample should we take?
Which data?
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The Problem Solving Approach
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PSA cycle
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What s in your bowl? Cereal
Type
Sugars (g)
Salt (g)
Fibre (g)
Oats/Rice Corn/Wheat
Per 100g
Per 100g
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Example data set
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The Problem Solving Approach
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PSA cycle
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What s in your bowl? Here are some labels that were collected from chocolate flavoured cereals: Choco Flakes
Choco snaps
Kellogg s
Choco Flakes
Calories (kcal) Sainsbury
Asda s
Coco Pops
385.0 Chocolate Hoops
Calories (kcal) Kellogg
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462.0 Chocolate Frosties
Carbohydrate (g) (g) 79.0 Carbohydrate Calories (kcal) Calories (kcal) Asda Kellogg s 62.5370.0 Choco Hoops370.0 Chocolate Minis Sugars (g) Sugars (g) 37.0 85.4 Carbohydrate (g) No Data Carbohydrate (g) 85.4 Calories (kcal) (kcal) Co-op Weetabix 385.0 Calories 385.0 Choco Crackles Special8.3 K Choco Protein (g) Protein (g) (g) 7.0 Sugars (g) Sugars No Data No Data Carbohydrate (g) Carbohydrate (g) 79.0 79.0 Calories (kcal) (kcal) Morrisons Kellogg 385.0 Calories 4.5 5.5 19.9 &sNut 385.0 Fat (g) Fat (g) Choc Crisp Choco Flakes Protein (g) (g) Protein (g) (g) 5.5 Sugars Sugars 37.0 37.0 Carbohydrate (g) Fibre (g)79.0 Carbohydrate (g) 79.0 Calories (kcal) 4.0 4.8 Fibre Fat (g) (g) Calories (kcal) Tesco Kellogg s 385.0 385.0 0.7 0.7 Fat (g) Protein (g) (g) Protein (g) (g) 7.0 7.0 Sugars Sugars 37.0 37.0 0.2 (g) No Data Sodium (g) Sodium (g) Carbohydrate Carbohydrate (g) 79.0 462.0 Calories3.0 (kcal) Fibre (g) Calories 3.0 (kcal)Fibre (g)79.0385.0 4.5 Fat (g) Fat (g) 4.5 Protein (g) (g) (g) (g) 7.0 Protein 7.0 Sugars Sugars 37.0 37.0 No Data (g) Sodium (g) No Data Sodium (g) 79.0 Carbohydrate (g) Carbohydrate 62.5 4.0 Fibre (g) 4.0 Fibre (g) 4.5 Fat (g) 4.5 Fat (g) Protein (g) Protein (g) 7.0 7.0 Sugars (g) 0.2 Sugars (g) 0.2 Sodium 37.0 No Data Sodium (g) (g) 4.0 Fibre Fibre (g) 4.0 (g) 4.5 Fat Fat (g) 4.5 8.3 Protein (g) 7.0 (g)Protein (g) 0.2 Sodium (g) Sodium (g) 0.2 4.0 Fibre (g) Fibre (g) 4.0 19.9 4.5 Fat (g) Fat (g) 0.2 Sodium (g) Sodium (g) 0.2 4.8 4.0 Fibre (g) Fibre (g) Sodium (g)
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Let s look at the how much fibre is found in each cereal. Labels from chocolate cereals
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What s in your bowl? Choc & Nut Crisp Choco Crackles Choco Hoops Choco Snaps (Asda) Choco Snaps Choco Snaps (value) Choco Squares Chocolate Cereal Chocolate Cornflake Clusters Chocolate Crisp Minis Coco Pops Coco Pops (Crunchers) Corn Flakes Chocolate Mini Bites Crunchy Choco Crisp & Square Crunchy Chocolate Crunchy Nut Clusters Chocolate Curls Frosties Chocolate Ready Brek Chocolate Shreddies Coco Special K Choco
