Biscuits
Research Context: Food products for consumers with special dietary
needs.
Design Theme: Sweet and savoury biscuit products.
Mind map all the different types of
Homework
You will need to find three
sweet and two savoury biscuit
biscuits you can think of.
recipes.
Biscuits
A useful website: www.bbcgoodfood.com
Print out your recipes and methods
and highlight any key points that you
your design ideas.
.
could annotate, when you produce
Fairtrade sugar to support third world
Example
producers. Sugar adds sweetness and
Gluten free flour and
colour through carmelisation when baked.
baking powder to make
the cookies suitable for
Free range egg to blind
people with coeliac
dry ingredients together
disease. I will use half
to form cookie dough.
white and half wholemeal
to add extra fibre to
Made using the creaming
the cookies. Flour forms
method. When the fat and
main structure of the
biscuit.
sugar are creamed together
they trap air to give a light texture.
Cookie dough rolled out and cut out using a cutter
Raspberries: Locally sourced
to ensure a consistent
to reduce food miles and
shape throughout the
support local business.
batch.
Raspberries can count towards 1 of your 5-a-day White chocolate drizzled over the cookie for decoration.
and add colour and flavour to the cookie.
Produce two design ideas for a new range of biscuit products. Annotate your product to meet the Design
Criteria. Remember to draw
in pencil, colour in with coloured pencils.
The product must be: DESIGN CRITERIA Be a sweet product Be gluten free Contain 1 of your 5‐a‐day Provide sensory appeal
Mind map all the special diets that
you can think of.
Lactose Intolerance What is it?
What are the symptoms of being Lactose Intolerance?
What is Lactose?
What can’t you eat?
Are there any substitutes for foods you can’t eat or special products available?
What would you need to consider when designing a biscuit for this dietary need?
Research the following diets and answer the questions.
Coeliac Disease
What is it?
What are the symptoms of Coeliac Disease?
What is gluten?
What can’t you eat?
Are there any substitutes for foods you can’t eat or special products available?
What would you need to consider when designing a biscuit for this dietary need?
Diabetes
What is it?
What are the symptoms?
What can’t you eat?
What would you need to consider when designing a biscuit for this dietary need?
Nut Allergy What is it?
What are the symptoms of a nut allergy?
What is an anaphylactic reaction?
What would you need to consider when designing a biscuit for this dietary need?
Vegetarian
What is it?
What can’t you eat?
Group
Can’t eat?
Lacto Vegetarian Lacto Ovo Vegetarian
Vegan
What do vegetarians need to ensure they have enough of in their diet?
What would you need to consider when designing a biscuit for this dietary need?
Useful websites: http://www.nutrition.org.uk/nutritionscience/allergy http://www.nhs.uk/LiveWell/Goodfood/Pages/Goodfoodhome.aspx
Annotate the eat well plate to explain its key features.
Questions 1. What is a balanced diet?
2.
Discuss the effects of an unhealthy diet
List the 8 tips of eating well.
Research and bullet point key points surrounding the following issues.
Organic
Fair Trade
Food Miles
GM Foods
Buying British
Free Range
What is a Standard Component? examples of Standard Components Give some Fill in the table about Standard Components
Advantages
Disadvantages
Complete the advantages and disadvantages of each type of
packaging.
Type of Packaging Glass
Advantages
Paperboard
Aluminium
Plastic
Mind map the food hygiene and safety issues you must consider when working with food.
Food Hygiene and
Safety
Disadvantages
