This qualification has been designed to provide a good, basic understanding of nutrition. This course is recommended for all employees in catering environments involved in the selection of menus, recipes and ingredients.
DurationThis is often run as a 1 day course but can be delivered over two days
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Course Description
The benefits of a healthy and varied diet are indisputable. This qualification has been designed to provide a good, basic understanding of nutrition. This course is recommended for all employees in catering environments involved in the selection of menus, recipes and ingredients. It is also relevant for those in the health care and education sectors. Especially, crèches, private day nurseries, child minders and pre/after-school clubs. The Government is committed to reducing death and ill health caused by diet-related disease. More than ever – caterers need to understand the link between diet and health.
Course Contents
A range of subjects is covered including:
Good basic understanding of nutrition principles and terminology
Understand the requirements of a balanced diet and its positive effect on health
Identify differing needs, allergies and food intolerances
Appreciate that different groups of people require different diets to suit their lifestyle
Knowledge of the requirements of the current legislation
Understand the impact of food processing and manufacturing on the nutritional content of foods
Appreciate the importance of accurate nutritional information being available on food products
Be able to understand food labelling and it’s impact of health
What does “five a day” really mean?
Abacus Training was founded in 2002. It was then established as a limited company in November 2011 as Abacus Training Centre Ltd. Since then, Abacus Training Centre has trained 1000s of employees across a wide range of organisations across the UK, from manufacturing to education, government to emergency services, trades to office based and more. Abacus Training Centre was recently nominated for the Breaking the Mould 2020 award – recognising business excellence during the pandemic – from Keele University.
Trainers with real-world experience
We have an experienced team of highly skilled training instructors and assessors. They are all qualified tutors and have spent many years gaining their knowledge and real life experience.
We will offer you practical skills based training with the added value of sound professional experience and contextualised resources in line with your establishment’s field of work.
Delivering lifesaving skills & peace of mind
Our hands-on training approach, with a strong focus on practical elements, will give you 100% confidence that you have the essential lifesaving skills to enable you to operate safely within the working environment and peace of mind in your home life. We pride ourselves on our commitment to provide the highest standards of delivery with up-to-date resources and support, ensuring that personal development and training needs are met with an efficient and positive approach.
This Awareness course is designed to provide candidates with an introduction to Nutrition awareness and how best to enable service users to choose and consume food and drink by mouth. Delegates will understand how to assess the specific nutritional requirements and needs of each user.
This Nutrition & Hydration Course learning outcomes include; Meal planning for vulnerable persons and their dietary requirements. Learn healthy eating with the 5 major food groups, the importance of allergies and food labelling using the Eatwell Plate and Food Triangle.
A healthy, well-balanced and nutritious diet is vital for good physical health and positive mental wellbeing. In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, our bodies require a variety of vitamins and minerals which we must obtain from the food that we eat.
What does the qualification cover? This qualification will increase understanding of the principles of healthy eating and the role of maintaining health. It will increase confidence in planning and achieving a healthy diet and how an individual's dietary requirements change throughout life.
This course is designed for anyone involved in food preparation and planning. Learners will gain knowledge of nutrition and an understanding of special dietary requirements.
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