DISH DETECTIVE - NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS

Turn any student recipe into a full nutritional investigation. Students type in their ingredients and instantly see traffic-light labels, cost per portion, an Eatwell Guide check, vitamins and minerals, a food label and a star profile. Built on UK data, for UK classrooms.

WHAT YOU GET

• Dish Detective app: one file that opens in any modern web browser. No installation, no accounts, no logins.
• Student Guidance Booklet (PDF): a step-by-step guide with worked examples

WHAT STUDENTS CAN DO

• Enter a recipe from a list of nearly 2,900 UK foods and see energy, fat, saturates, sugars, salt, protein, carbohydrate and fibre per portion
• See UK front-of-pack traffic lights and % of reference intake
• Cost a recipe from real shop prices, and see the cost per portion
• Work out a selling price, profit, profit margin, markup and break-even price
• Compare their dish with the Eatwell Guide food groups
• See 19 vitamins and minerals, with the main source of each
• Build a UK-style food label with ingredients in weight order and allergens in bold
• Compare an original recipe with an improved version side by side
• Score their dish on five criteria of their own choice and plot it on a star profile
• Collect scores from other tasters using printable or on-screen taster sheets, and plot them on the same chart
• Download a hand-in report (or save as PDF) to upload to Teams, Google Classroom or any other system

REQUIREMENTS

A computer, laptop or tablet with a recent web browser such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.

INSTANT DOWNLOAD

After purchase you can download the files . Nothing is posted.

DATA SOURCE

Nutrition values come from McCance and Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID) 2021.

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Results are estimates based on the weights entered, for educational use only. They are not dietary, medical or allergy advice.
• Where the dataset has no value for a nutrient, the tool counts it as zero and shows a warning.
• Allergens and Eatwell Guide groups are suggested automatically from food names, so students should check them.
• Labels made by the tool are for classwork only. Do not use them for food you sell.
• This product is not affiliated with or endorsed by UKHSA, the NHS, the Food Standards Agency or the Eatwell Guide.

QUESTIONS?

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