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This innovative, educational platform helps you expand your knowledge and feed your children’s curiosity. Designed and developed by experts, the Academy offers a reliable source for gaining insight into issues related to food and nutrition through videos, themed worksheets and much more.

Take advantage of an invaluable tool and find out everything about nutrition

This innovative, educational platform helps you expand your knowledge and feed your children’s curiosity. Designed and developed by experts, the Academy offers a reliable source for gaining insight into issues related to food and nutrition through videos, themed worksheets and much more. For some fun family time, why not take part in our intergenerational quizzes?

Food and the 5 senses

What role do our 5 senses play in our perception of the food we eat?

Food and nutrients

A varied and balanced diet. What does it mean? What is the role of the nutrients found in our food?

Processing food

Why do we need to process food before eating it? Understanding food labels.

The digestive system

A trip inside the digestive tract!

Ecology and food economy

Understanding the economic and environmental implications of producing food.

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Games, quizzes and challenges make learning fun! Win and collect dozens of badges and show off your best level. Are you ready? Let’s go!

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Food and the 5 senses

Sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste... How do we use our 5 senses when we eat?

Food and nutrients

Food groups, nutrients... What are they for? Why should we eat a balanced and varied diet?

Processing food

How is food prepared and preserved? How can we make sense of food labels?

The digestive system

What are the secrets of the digestive tract? Set off on a great adventure now!

Ecology and food economy

How do we produce the food we eat? What impact does that have on the planet?

This innovative platform, a perfect mix between theory and practical activities, helps enrich your study programme and make your lessons come alive! The Academy invites you to discover its MOOCs platform comprising videos, activities, educational worksheets and much more...

An opportunity for a real educational partnership

This innovative platform, a perfect mix between theory and practical activities, helps enrich your study programme and make your lessons come alive! Fully aligned with Swiss and French school curricula, the Academy invites you to discover its MOOCs platform comprising videos, activities, educational worksheets and much more... Plus, if you wish to go even further, the tests and quizzes will help you keep track of your pupils’ progress.

Food and the 5 senses

What role do our 5 senses play in our perception of the food we eat?

Food and nutrients

A varied and balanced diet. What does it mean? What is the role of the nutrients found in our food?

Processing food

Why do we need to process food before eating it? Understanding food labels.

The digestive system

Digestion: The journey of food in the digestive tract!

Ecology and food economy

Understanding the economic and environmental implications of producing food

My Academy account

Save lessons, keep track of pupils’ progress, discover ingenious content and many other great features.

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Food and the 5 senses

Smell and taste

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Lessons on this topic

Sight, hearing and touch: Eating with your eyes The ear – 30 000 receptors help you hear Touch with your hands and mouth
Smell and taste: Odours and aromas – What's the difference? Olfactory perception Taste buds Four... or more tastes?

8-10 years old 11-13 years old 14-16 years old

Overview

This course explains how chemical molecules in food activate our olfactory and gustative organs to give food tastes, odours and aromas.

Learning objective

Differentiating between ‘odour’ and ‘aroma’
Classifying food by its basic taste
Learning about trigeminal sensations.

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Lessons

Odours and aromas – What's the difference?

Olfactory perception

Taste buds

Four... or more tastes?