FOOD6001: Analysis of food product labels and evaluation of their potential impact on health: Science of Food and Health Assignment, MTU, Ireland

Assignment: Analysis of food product labels and evaluation of their potential impact on health.

Assignment guidelines

This assignment requires you to prepare a file of food product labels and summarise their potential impact on health. To do this, you need to

⦁ Collect/source product labels from the each of the following types of products
Group 1: One meat product and one meat alternative product (e.g. veggie burger)
Group 2: One dairy milk and one alternative plant-based beverage
Group 3: One gluten containing cereal product and one gluten free alternative cereal product
Group 4: One probiotic food and one probiotic supplement
Group 5: One fresh fish and one processed fish product

⦁ For each food show the label, the ingredients, and the nutrition table, as provided on the product. There will be three images per food

⦁ Under each label, analyse the contribution the food makes to GDAs in table format. Do this for each product label separately.

⦁ Then once you have the two labels and the two tables from the category (e.g. one meat and meat alternative product) you will include a comparison of their health and nutritional benefits, making reference to the GDAs and numbers from the tables.

Please keep the word count for the health comment to MAX 250 words/food group. Do not exceed this.

⦁ References for where you sourced the information in the health comments should be provided.