Preparing Healthy Meals for Dietary Requirements with BBC Good Food
Learn Path Description
Improve your cooking skills and approach special dietary needs with confidenceHealth is a vital life currency. What you eat affects not just your weight, but your energy, your mind, and your susceptibility to certain health conditions. However, you shouldn’t require a degree in nutrition to navigate how to eat well and nourish your body in a simple way. On this ExpertTrack, you’ll be introduced to the idea of personalisation in the kitchen by exploring four areas of special dietary needs; low sugar or sugar conscious, gut supportive, free-from, and vegan. You’ll go on a food-first journey to understand why these requirements are important, and how to maintain nutritional balance and taste in your meals. Learn how to make healthy meals for dietary preferences Throughout the ExpertTrack, you’ll not only develop an understanding of the most common dietary preferences but you’ll also learn how to cater to these diets with delicious and nutritious food. You’ll discover new, healthy ingredients as well as creative ways to use them as you collect tasty recipes and build your repertoire of dishes in the kitchen. Explore the importance of gut health As well as providing nutrition, gut-healthy food can also improve our mental and physical wellbeing. You’ll examine the role of fibre, probiotics, and prebiotics in gut health and learn gut-healthy techniques to cook nutritious food. Learn more about the vegan diet You’ll explore vegan diets and how to create delicious, nutritious, and healthy vegan meals. Whether you’re a new or existing vegan, or simply looking to include more plant-based meals, you’ll learn how to easily maintain nutritional balance on a vegan diet. Approach food allergies and intolerances with confidence You’ll be guided through the most common food allergens and learn the difference between allergies and food intolerances to help you create safe meals. You’ll explore ingredient alternatives to help you choose nutritious and tasty food to support your health. Explore sugar-free and low-sugar diets Taking a deep dive into the effects of sugar on the body, you’ll learn tips and tricks to help you reduce sugar and create tasty sugar-free and low-sugar recipes. By the end of this ExpertTrack, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to navigate special dietary requirements with ease. With tasty recipes and new cooking skills under your belt, you can impress your friends and family with delicious meals.
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Courses In This Learning Path
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Beginner
Learn Type
Certifications
Sweet Tooth: Understanding Sugar and the Body with BBC Good Food
Sugar intake can have a negative impact on your body and your ability to focus. It can be confusing to understand the differences between sugars and how to change your diet to decrease your intake.
This four-week course by BBC Good Food will help you understand the true effects of sugar on your body, how to spot hidden sugars and how to make delicious, nutritious low-sugar and sugar-free meals.
We'll examine how sugar affects your health and well-being, and whether sugar can be included in a healthy diet.
To understand the differences between sugar and sweetness, you will compare real and artificial sweeteners.
This knowledge will help you choose the right sugars and sugar replacements for your diet.
The course will help you reflect on sugar quantity and quality in daily meals. This will allow you to adapt recipes to use natural sugars, or decrease sugar loads altogether.
You'll be able to find sugar-free and low-sugar recipe ideas that still taste great and have nutritional value by the end of this course.
Total Duration
3 weeks
Level
Beginner
Learn Type
Certifications
Fibre, Fermentation & the Gut with BBC Good Food
Gut health goes beyond nutrition. Research has shown that gut bacteria is linked to chronic diseases, anxiety, and the immune system.
This course is five weeks long and will take you on a food-first journey to understand the roles of probiotics, fibre, and prebiotics within gut health.
Learn practical and easy ways to include more gut-supportive foods in your diet.
Learn about the function of probiotics and prebiotics, and how to incorporate them into your daily diet.
You'll learn the different types of fiber your body needs and how much you should be consuming each day.
We'll be discussing different cooking methods for gut health and their benefits such as fermentation.
You'll be able to use your new skills and knowledge to help you identify key ingredients for creating balanced meals that support your gut health.
BBC Good Food experts will guide you through delicious recipes that will help you incorporate more gut-friendly foods into your daily diet.
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Beginner
Learn Type
Certifications
Special Diets: Cooking for Allergies and Intolerances with BBC Good Food
This five-week course is for anyone who has an allergy or intolerance. It also helps you prepare safe meals.
This course will teach you how to preserve your nutritional balance and avoid allergens like gluten, dairy, peanuts and eggs.
This knowledge will give you the confidence to cook delicious meals that you can share with others.
This course will discuss the most common food allergens and then explain the differences between intolerance and allergy.
This knowledge will allow you to navigate restaurant menus and food labels for different dietary needs.
You'll learn how to find safe, tasty, and satisfying ingredients as you explore and select the best ones.
BBC Good Food experts will guide you as you explore new flavours and techniques to improve your health.
You will be able to prepare balanced, nutritious meals and recognize allergens in recipes.
Total Duration
4 weeks
Level
Intermediate
Learn Type
Certifications
Healthy Vegan Cooking with BBC Good Food
You might choose to eat vegan for ethical reasons, your health, or just to add more vegan food into your daily life.
This course is four weeks long and will teach you how to eat healthy vegan food.
Learn how to identify and cook delicious vegan meals.
You will learn the differences between veganism and other popular diets, such as vegetarianism and plant-based diets. Then you will explore the reasons one might opt to eat vegan.
Learn the fundamental concepts of a healthy diet, and what vegan foods can provide daily nutrition.
Learn how to alter meals while maintaining flavor and the roles of micronutrients and macronutrients in a vegan diet.
The course will teach you how to avoid common mistakes in vegan cooking, how to stock your kitchen with staples and new recipes that you can share with friends.
You'll learn from BBC Good Food experts and will finish the course with a one week vegan meal plan.
