NAAIDT: NAAIDT Project Exchange: Healthy Foods Product Design

Healthy Foods Product Design
Babington Community Technology College
Submitted by: Sioux Gardner

Reception	Whole Class Project	Resistant Materials	Engineering
KS1	Individual Project	Graphics	CADCAM
KS2	Short Task	Food	Catering
KS3	Research and Investigation	Textiles	Fashion
KS4	Enterprise activity	ICT	Electronics
Post 16	Product Analysis	Systems and Control	Structures
Embedding ICT in DT

Lesson Context
GCSE students project to design and make a new food product that is healthier than similar existing products as well as being creative and innovative.

Resources Needed
- Laser cutter;
- CAD software - we use 'Techsoft 2D Design'
- Nutritional analysis software;
- Fully equiped food room

Project Brief
The novelty cake section of the local supermarket sells a range of decorated sponge cakes. These products appeal to a range of people, but do not fit with our school policy of 'Healthy Eating'.

Your task to redesign novelty sweet product to be healthier. It must be a marketable product so should be aesthetically pleasing, innovative and creative.

Design and Manufacture
Students had to design both a remodelled healthier recipe and create an appealing finish to the product.

'Rocky' cake ready to receive final decoration of icing sugar dredge

Additional Information
This presentation was a low fat carrot and orange cake, aimed at increasing a user's '5 a day' intake as well as reducing their sugar and fat intake compared to a standard novelty cake.

The design of 'Rocky' was taken as a currently popular theme, to appeal to a trendy market. The stencil was designed in 2D design and cut out on a laser cutter.

From the the DfES funded and BECTa supported, joint NAAIDT and DATA project 'Embedding ICT in Design and Technology'

DFES, BECTa, NAAIDT and DATA logos