Current Dietary Advice

You should know current dietary advice, and how to apply it to a range of ingredients and dishes.

You might be asked to suggest amendments to dishes that will help them meet current dietary advice.

You must be accurate in your answer when linking it to the advice. It is important to read the question carefully as you may be asked to link each answer to different pieces of dietary advice.

Example SQP Q1a:

Describe three changes that could be made to this recipe to meet current dietary advice. Explain a different way each change you have described helps to meet current dietary advice (6 marks)

Acceptable Answers

•Change: change butter to a vegetable oil

Explanation: to reduce saturated fat content of the muffin

•Change: change milk to skimmed/semi-skimmed

Explanation: to reduce the total fat content of the muffin

•Change: change the flour to wholemeal flour

Explanation: to increase the fibre content of the muffin

•Change: reduce the amount of sugar

Explanation: to reduce the energy/free sugars in the muffin