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Whole Foods: Processed Foods:
Brainstorm: Fruits🍎 Cheese🧀
Vegetables🥦 Canned food 🥫
Brainstorm and record below Nuts🥜 Breakfast Cereal🥣
some examples of whole and Seeds🌱 Bread🍞
processed foods:
Beans🫛 Cake🎂
Lentils🫘 Biscuits🍪
Milk🥛 Snacks🍿
Wholegrains🌾 Salt🧂
Eggs🥚 Sugar🍶
Certain Meat🍗 Fast Food🍕💨
Research 🧐 Task:
Research the chain of events for honey, orange, peanut butter and complete its
production chain.
Complete the following sentences for each of the foods above:
● I think the most important link in the production chain for ________________ is …..
Why I think that…
● I think the link that could be broken or left out would be ___________________…..
Why I think that…
● I think shorter/longer food production chains are best. (circle one)
Why I think that…
Honey 🍯 Production: Questions:
1. First the Bee 🐝 collects nectar from a 1. I think the most important link in the
flower, then it flies back to the hive. production chain is the nectar being
chewed and passed from bee to bee.
2. Back at the hive, worker bees pass the
This crucial step affects the texture and
nectar to house bees, so they can start the taste of the about-to-be made honey,
honey-making process. Nectar is chewed due to no change in chemicals.
and passed from bee to bee, which 2. The link that can be left out is the
changes its chemical properties. settling process honey is edible right out
3. Now, the bees spread the honey over the of the hive so the step after is not
honeycomb to dry it out. necessary and takes a lot of time too.
3. I think shorter food productions are best
4. Finally, the “dried” honey is moved into
because it takes less time, money and
the honeycomb cells and capped with effort to process the food.
beeswax to keep it fresh until the bees are
ready to eat it.
5. Once extracted, the honey is left to settle.
6. After settling, the honey is gently warmed
Orange 🍊 Production Questions:
1. Orange seeds are planted at farms 1. The most important link is the growing
2. Growing and Harvesting and harvesting as some times crops can
3. Cleaned fail to grow or the weather destroys
4. Put in boxes📦 seedling. This step is a long but crucial
5. Transported to shops or other countries one due to the amount of effort is put in
the hope of a successful season.
2. I think the link that is unnecessary is the
cleaning as once the oranges are at our
homes we wash all our fruits again for
health safety so this step is a waste of
water and time.
3. I think shorter food productions are best
because it takes less time, money and
effort to process the food.
Peanut Butter 🥜🧈 Production: Questions:
1. First a farmer buys peanut seeds to plant, 1. I think the most important link is the
choosing the variety which will grow best in grinding as it is done two times!I think
his paddock that is due to the roughness of the nut
2. The farmer then harvests the peanut bushes turning into the thick viscotic paste that
with a digger, leaving them upturned in the is peanut butter.
sun to dry 2. I don’t think there is a broken link in the
processing of peanut butter, (Every step
3. When the peanut plants have dried out
Counts!) Maybe because it is such a long
enough, the peanuts are shaken off the dried
process to make peanut butter no extra
bushes with a thresher
steps were included.
4. The peanuts are then taken by truck to the
3. I think shorter food productions are best
Peanut factory for processing because it takes less time, money and
5. Employees use machines to remove the effort to process the food.
peanut shells and sorters to separate out any
unwanted material
6. The peanuts are then roasted in giant ovens
7. Additional ingredients, such as sugar and salt
🍶, are mixed in during the second grinding
Thank you!
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