Design and Technology: Food is a full colour textbook which provides full coverage of the design and technology requirements for key stage 4/GCSE within the focus area of food. It looks at the way new products are designed and developed within the industry, using a range of original case studies based on REAL industrial contexts. The authors relate the activities that students will be involved in to industrial practices. There are case studies based around three companies: Weetabix, Pret A Manger (a chain of shops selling sandwiches) and Cryovac (a company which manufactures plastics for food products). The book includes focused practical tasks, design and make assignments and activities in which students disassemble and evaluate familiar products.

 

This book is part of a book series called Step-Design And Technology 5-16 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 4. KS4 covers school years 10 and 11, and ages 15-16 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 54 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Cambridge University Press .

This book has the following chapters: Breakfast, focusing on research and healthy diets; Developing new products, focusing on products and applications with regard to breakfast products, how to conduct research, quality control, testing (taste tests and product development tests); Product design, focusing on how a new food product is designed, specifications for new food products, quality control and quality assurance systems; Systems, focusing on systems terminology and how systems are used in food technology; Selling sandwiches, focusing on designing products to meet specific needs and markets, how materials used in food products can be combined, processed and finished, products produced for specific markets, quality control applied to the manufacture of sandwiches, health and safety of food products during production; Packaging of food, focusing on the development of materials for food packaging, designing and making food packaging, the effect of production and use of packaging materials on the environment; The composition of packaging materials, focusing on materials; Appendix, market research; Glossary; Index