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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
EIT Food and University of Reading
This online course explored basic concepts of food labels, the regulations, as well as the claims food producers are allowed to make. The course covered topics including the limatations of food labels, ingredients lists, daily allowances and health claims.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Maarten van der Kamp
Director of Education
EIT Food
Simona Grasso
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Reading
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Interpret a typical food label - be familiar with the categories of information labels contain and why they are important.
- Explore ingredients lists and discover your recommended daily allowances.
- Compare trustworthy health claims and those inspired by marketeers.
- Collect reliable information to base your buying decisions on.
- Assess the complexities of labelling food according to production values such as sustainability and animal welfare.
- Reflect on the limitations of food labels - what they don't tell you.
Syllabus
• How to navigate a typical food label - become familiar with the categories of information labels contain and why they are important.
• The limitations of food labels - what they don’t tell you.
• Decoding ingredients lists and discovering your recommended daily allowances.
• Differentiating between trustworthy health claims and those inspired by marketeers.
• How to resist the power of branding and gather reliable information to base your buying decisions on.
• The complexities of labelling food according to production values such as sustainability and animal welfare.
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Issued on 20th September 2020
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