Discover or rediscover the various methods of preparing food to make it edible, improve its texture and flavour, and also sometimes make it more digestible or simply enable us to preserve it!
Unravel all the information that food labels provide about the nature of a product, its composition, how and where it is produced, and how it contributes to meeting your daily energy and nutritional requirements!

Why do we need to process food before eating it? Understanding food labels.

Chopped, canned, pasteurised... food undergoes many transformations to make it suitable for consumption, , to improve its texture and flavour, make it easier to digest or to preserve it.
Food labels are like identity cards for the product, providing us with a whole range of information about the nature of the product, how to store it, what it contains, and also how it contributes to meeting our daily energy and nutritional requirements.

Why do we need to process food before eating it? Understanding food labels.

Did you know that sometimes we need to prepare food before eating it? We use various techniques to improve its taste or texture and to be sure it can help you grow big and strong, or to preserve it for eating another day.
Product labels contain lots of information about how and where food is made, what it contains and the things inside it that will help you grow and play.

How is food prepared and preserved? How can we make sense of food labels?