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How Do Our Senses Classify the Foods We Eat?
Food Detective Berry Blue introduces the concept of classifying foods based upon our five senses. She gives examples and makes a short list of classifications for each of our five senses.
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What’s in Our Food?
Food Detective Berry Blue compares two breakfast cereals by comparing their labels. The Food Detective explains which are healthy ingredients and which are not. She then asks the student to choose the healthier breakfast cereal.
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Portion and Serving Size
Food Detective Berry Blue discusses portion sizes for each of the Fabulous Five Food Groups and then explains the concept of serving size. She provides examples.
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Meat Makes Muscles
Food Detective Berry Blue completes her discussion of the Fabulous Five Food Groups by talking about the meat group. She describes the benefits we receive from protein, but cautions us to eat smaller portions of meat to avoid fat intake....
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The Great Grain Group
Food Detective Berry Blue focuses on the grains group of the Fabulous Five Food Groups. She gives examples of foods made from grains. She describes the lifecycle of a wheat plant. Finally, she explains the nutritional value of grains in...
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Fabulous Fruit
Food Detective Berry Blue talks about the delicious and nutritious fruit group. She describes the way fruit grows and how fruit can be purchased fresh, canned, or frozen. She lists several delicious ways to serve fruits, and the various...
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Vitamin-Filled Vegetables
Food Detective Berry Blue talks about why vegetables are such an important part of the Fabulous Five Food Groups. She explains the way vegetables grow and how they can be purchased fresh, canned, or frozen. She raves about the...
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Let’s Review Our Healthy Choices
The Food Detective Berry Blue reviews the information your student has learned about eating a healthy diet. Food Detective Berry Blue recaps what we’ve learned by providing answers to the important questions of why, what, how, when, and...
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I Want That
The Food Detective Berry Blue shows some of the methods advertisers use to trick us into buying merchandise. She then explains how you can make sure that, when it comes to buying food, you’re buying the healthy, nutritious food that you...
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Choosing a Healthy Drink
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains how to choose healthy beverages. She discusses the reasons that some beverages are good for you and why some are not.
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Make Dinner a Winner
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains how to use the Fabulous Five Food Groups to make your dinner a winner. She and the student will play a healthy dinner food game called, “What’s Missing?”
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Let’s Learn About Lunch
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains why lunch is an important mid-day meal, and then encourages your student to play a healthy lunch food game called, “What Will You Choose?”
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Let’s Talk About Breakfast
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains why breakfast is such an important meal, and then plays a healthy breakfast game called, “What Will You Choose?”
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The Great Grains Group
The Food Detective Berry Blue talks about the grains group. She explains the way that grains grow and how grains can be found in so many different kinds of food. She then invites your student to play another food game called, “Which...
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The Marvelous Milk Group
The Food Detective Berry Blue talks about the milk group. She explains that in addition to providing protein, milk is one of the best sources of calcium.
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Meat or No Meat
The Food Detective Berry Blue explains why protein is such an important component of our diet and then plays a “find the protein game,” called “Meat or No Meat.”
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Fruits of the Rainbow
The Food Detective Berry Blue talks about one of the Fabulous Five Food Groups – Fruits. She compares fresh fruits to canned or frozen fruits and then invites your student to play a game of Fruits of the Rainbow.
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Let’s Talk About Vegetables
The Food Detective Berry Blue talks about one of the Fabulous Five Food Groups – Vegetables. She compares fresh vegetables to canned or frozen and raw vegetables to cooked vegetables.
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The Fabulous Five Food Groups
The Food Detective Berry Blue introduces us to the Fabulous Five Food Groups. She explains what is in each group and why a healthy balance of foods from these food groups makes up the best fuel for our bodies.
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How Much Do You Eat?
The Food Detective Berry Blue talks about calories and what happens to our bodies when we eat too many calories. She then introduces us to the USDA MyPlate recommendations for eating healthy, balanced meals.
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When Do You Eat?
Food Detective Berry Blue explains why eating three meals a day on a consistent schedule is a healthy way to fuel our bodies.
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Where Do You Eat?
The Detective Berry Blue reminds us to make healthy choices, no matter where we eat. She offers suggestions to prevent us from making poor food decisions.
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Exploring Carbohydrates
Exploring Carbohydrates identifies the primary functions of carbohydrates by describing how carbohydrates are used as a structural component, for energy storage, and as a source of energy in living organisms.
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Parts of a Plant: Part 2
“Parts of a Plant: Part 2” reviews the main parts of a plant and discusses foods that come from each plant part.