Food Science

Protein tells your body that you're full, so it's good to get protein in a snack when you're hungry. Here are 30 easy ways to do that.

Skipping the morning meal can throw off your body’s rhythm of fasting and eating. When you wake up, the blood sugar your body needs to make your muscles and brain work their best is usually low. Breakfast helps replenish it.

This food guide promotes healthy eating and overall nutritional well-being, and support improvements to the Canadian food environment

This video explores some of its key parts, including vital nutrients (water, vitamins, minerals, carbs, fats, and proteins) and describes two different reactions: anabolic and catabolic.

In this Crash Course video, learn about human metabolism including cellular respiration, atp, glycogenesis, and how insulin regulates our blood sugar levels.

My Food Guide is an interactive tool that will help you personalize the information found in Canada's Food Guide.

FoodData Central is an integrated data system that provides expanded nutrient profile data and links to related agricultural and experimental research.

The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum's Food for Health portal is packed full of interesting content, from practical tips like how to read a food label to a historical look at the evolution of food safety. The portal is divided into five sections: Food and Farming, Labels and Packaging, Food Safety, Health and Nutrition, and Food for Thought.

Our traditional foods have nourished us well since the time of our creation and have been of fundamental importance to our culture. We developed sophisticated techniques to preserve a variety of foods year round to keep our bodies strong and this knowledge has carried us well into our current place

Tips on healthy snacking from the Government of Canada

This video explores the balance of microbes in a digestive system and how bacteria can break down food the body can’t digest, produce important nutrients, regulate the immune system, and protect against harmful germs.

This reliable health web site offers a collection excellent resources about nutrition

A nutrition page from Health Canada

Learn how to use nutrition information to make informed choices about the foods you buy.

Nutrition talks, exercises, and lessons from TedEd

Almost every year, the western world is introduced to a new superfood that boasts extraordinary nutritional benefits. The documentary examines its unintended effects this has on food security, health, sustainable farming, and fair-trade food practices.

Free teaching resources from the Dairy Farmers of Canada

Find out where sugar is hiding in foods you might not expect, like peanut butter and pasta sauce. What are all of sugar's aliases?