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Digi Bites

Suite 1: Eat Right - eating a healthy, balanced diet

Digi Bites 1 introduces the nutritional properties of red meat within the context of current drives to improve the British diet.

Please see the sample video clips and teachers' notes for an introduction to this new resource. Login is required to download the full video clips.

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East Asian Cookery Demos

Duration: 1min 23s

This is an introduction to the demonstrations and gives a summary of the different cuts of meat and cooking methods that are used. It also includes the choice of ingredients and their functions.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (4.32 MB)

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Beef Oriental Burgers

Duration: 2mins 42s

A demonstration of a quick and easy dish to prepare using mince, hoi sin sauce and ginger. It is served with a dipping sauce and oriental coleslaw.

The demonstration also includes alternative types of mince and a selection of shapes of burgers. This could be used for D&T experimental work.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (8.24 MB)

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Lamb Teriyaki Steaks

Duration: 2mins 36s

This is an introduction to marinating meat and a demonstration of how to produce marinated lamb leg steaks served with roasted sweet potatoes and parsnips.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (8.01 MB)

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Beef Chinese Stir-Fry

Duration: 3mins 41s

A demonstration of how to use a wok and seal meat whilst producing a very colourful Chinese stir fry served with rice and chilli sauce.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (11.2 MB)

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Chinese Slow Cook Pork

Duration: 3mins 54s

Due to the 2 hour cooking time this demonstration is more suitable for KS5 students. The pork is highly flavoured and served with noodles and stir fry vegetables.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (11.8 MB)

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Introducing Red Meat

Duration: 2mins 59s

This presentation includes lots of factual information about the versatility of red meat, from the traditional roast joint to barbecued kebabs. It looks at where beef, pork and lamb can be purchased and how it is sold.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (9.08 MB)

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Nutritional Benefits of Red Meat

Duration: 4mins 5s

This a comprehensive resume of the nutritional value of meat. The presentation includes information about how the fat content of meat has been reduced by selective breeding, changes to animal feed and modern butchery methods.

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (12.2 MB)

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Nutritional Labelling

Duration: 2mins 54s

This is a good summary of current nutritional information on modern product labels. It focuses on two methods: the 'traffic light' system and Guideline Daily Amounts (GDAs).

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download sample (1.5 MB) | download full clip (8.7 MB)

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Resources

Teachers' Notes

Suggested classroom uses of Digi Bites 1, with teaching strategies and content mapped to AQA and Edexcel GCSE and AS/A2 syllabi.

The teachers' notes are in PDF format. Adobe Reader is required to view PDF files.

Digibites Quiz

How many questions can your students answer correctly in the Digi Bites 1 - Quiz?

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Digi Bites Recipes

Featured recipes available to download and print.

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