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Typing practice for GCSE Food and Nutrition

Nutrients, spoilage and provenance, and the food science words nobody spells right first time: gelatinisation, dextrinisation, denaturation, syneresis.

Terms
299
Lessons
11
Spec code
3580QS

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition specification, first teaching 2025.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • dairy foods and alternatives
  • complementary actions of nutrients
  • environmental sustainability
  • environmental impact of cooking
  • Environmental Health Officer
  • harvesting and cleaning
  • working characteristics
  • sustainability practices
  • nutritional needs across life stages
  • melting using bain-marie
  • plant-based alternatives
  • estimated average requirement
  • unequal distribution of food
  • water based cooking methods
  • refrigeration and freezing
  • refrigerated transport
  • functional properties
  • food investigation plan

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Principles of Food and Nutrition

  • 1.1 Food commodity groups
  • 1.2 Nutrients for a balanced diet
  • 1.3 Diet and health
  • 1.4 Cooking food
  • 1.5 Food spoilage
  • 1.6 From field to fork

Food Investigation

  • 2.1 The science of food
  • 2.2 Planning and running food science experiments

Food and Nutrition in Action

  • 3.1 Factors affecting food choices
  • 3.2 Planning, preparation and cooking techniques

Command words and definitions

  • 4.1 Explaining terms in your own words

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition Specification (Version 2 - February 2025)
  • WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition Guidance for Teaching Unit 1 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition Guidance for Teaching Unit 2 (Undated)
  • WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition Guidance for Teaching Unit 3 (Undated)

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