TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight - Robert Lustig
While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to...
Curated Video
Deciphering Food Labels and Additives
Discover how to read food labels and understand the role of various additives in your favorite foods. Learn about the natural and artificial additives found in everyday items like pizza, ketchup, and syrup, and gain insights into their...
Curated Video
Helping to Make Healthy Choices
Food Detective Berry Blue encourages the student to become a food detective and to find as much information as possible about making healthy food choices. She then offers several sources of finding information about healthy foods.
Curated Video
Making Healthy Choices Away From Home
Food Detective Berry Blue talks about eating meals away from home. She discusses the best strategy to use to make healthy food choices when you don’t have food labels available to help you make those decisions.
Healthcare Triage
Do We Need New Calorie Labels?
There’s a lot of media attention on a recent study examining whether labeling food with the amount of exercise that would be needed to then burn it off changes how much people eat. Let’s dig in and see.
PBS
Next Meal: Engineering Food
Are genetically engineered foods risky or beneficial overall? The video, part of the PBS food science series, explores the debate from a scientific perspective. It explains the history of genetic modification, the benefits, and the...
Curated OER
How to Read a Nutrition Label
Take a look down a grocery aisle and you will see nutrition labels on every can and box of food. Do you know how to read the labels? This video shows you briefly what a nutrition label looks like and a few of the elements listed on each...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 2
In this video, Move It! cast members learn the importance of reading nutrition labels and what parts are most significant. [1:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Label Reading Part 1
This video helps people of all ages read nutrition labels correctly. Pat Mizerak registered dietician at United Health Services, points out important things on a label such as serving size and calories. [1:38]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Food Choices
These Fizzy's Lunch Lab videos promote the importance of understanding nutritional information and eating a well-balanced diet, focusing on food choices. Students learn about different types of foods from around the world, how to read...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fizzy's Lunch Lab: Whole Grains
Teacher directed lesson plan helps young learners discover the dissimilarity between whole grains and refined grains. [6:58]
Curated OER
Kids Health: Figuring Out Food Labels
Here is help in figuring out the information provided on food labels. Be sure you are getting the nutrition you need from the foods you eat.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Nutrition Labels for Fast Foods
Read about 2003 legislation that "would require fast-food outlets and other restaurant chains" to provide information about fat and calories with the food served. This site includes several links to articles on food labels, healthy...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour: Food and Drink Labels Get New Look, More Information
Hear why the FDA decided to give food labels a makeover with this video and educational resources from PBS NewsHour from May 20, 2016. [5:12] Support materials are provided.