The Great GRAINS Tasting!

In our last nutrition class two weeks ago, we explored four different types of grain:

• Wheat
• Rice
• Corn
• Oat

In that lesson, we used only two of our senses: sight and touch.



This week, we finally got to explore grain foods using all of our senses--

• sight [brown or white?]


• touch [hard or soft?]


• smell [mmm..]


• hearing [crunch crunch!]


• taste [yummy!]

We reviewed and learned new vocabulary related to grains..

Whole grains or refined grains-- which are healthier?
[If you know, send me the answer in the comment section at the end of this post!]


Before we tasted each grain food, we figured out as a class whether it was made from whole grains or refined grains, and how many grams of fiber each serving had.

We found out that whole grains had more fiber than refined grains.
Fiber! Woohoo!


Check out all of this yummy food we tried!



Now check out the packages these foods came in..


See if you can find these healthy words on the front labels:

• Whole Grain


• 100% Whole Wheat


• Multi-grain


• Granola


• Popcorn


• Rice


• Pita

Of the grain foods we tried..

• Which were whole grain?


• Which were refined grain or NOT whole grain? [Hint: there were two of them]

[If you know, send me the answers in the comment section at the end of this post!]

Your assignment:

• Eat more WHOLE grains!


• ASK! a grownup if you don't know if something is whole grain. We practiced, remember? 'Hey Ms. Marguerita, is this bread whole grain??'


• Read FOOD LABELS! There's a lot of healthy information right in front of you!