Food Chain
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What are your three favorite foods? Why?
What are the three foods you really don't like? Why?
How do you feel when trying new or unfamiliar foods?
What are Fear Foods?
Fear foods are foods that you avoid eating or eat very little.
because you don't like certain characteristics of them (for example, flavor, texture, color)
or because you have a negative memory of a food. The idea of eating a
the food of fear can make you nervous, uncomfortable, or anxious.
What is the Food Chain?
The food chain is a strategy that can help you to experiment
new foods or fear foods, considering their preferences
gastronomic and unique flavors. The goal is to create "chains" or connections between
foods that you already consume and new foods that can add value
nutritional to your diet. New foods are similar in taste or
texture to the foods you already like to eat and are gradually introduced and
regularly. Here are some examples of food chains:
Chicken nuggets
New food: Fish
store-bought chicken nuggets; homemade breaded
frango; Palitos de peixe à milanesa feitos em casa; Bacalhau assado à milanesa.
Steps to create your own food chains
STEP 1: List 10 foods that you really enjoy eating. If possible, try
choose at least one food you like from each food group: grains
(e.g. bread, pasta, cereals, cookies), proteins (e.g. eggs, meat, beans, soy)
dairy products (for example, milk, yogurt, cheese, soy milk), fruits (for example,
apple, strawberry), vegetables (e.g. carrot, tomato) and fats (e.g. butter of
peanut, nuts, butter.
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STAGE 2: based on the foods you listed above, circle your answers
for the questions below:
What textures do you like?
Crunchy
What flavors do you like?
Salty - Sweet - Spicy - Sour
How do you like to prepare your favorite foods?
Roasted
What do you like to eat with your favorite foods?
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(Exemplos: manteiga, queijo, mostarda, ketchup, maionese, molho de churrasco,
molho picante, molho de soja, homus, manteiga de amendoim, Nutella, mel, geléia)
STEP 3: What foods, if any, would you like to try in the future?
These could be foods that you liked the taste of, foods that your
family and friends usually eat, or foods that you are only
curious. What are the two new foods that you would like to try?
first?
