Food Lab Adventures: Ferments, Flavours & Snack Science
Curious. Creative. Delicious.
Food Lab is a 7-lesson hands-on high school mini-unit that explores the fascinating science behind food. Students investigate traditional foods such as biltong, kimchi, and frozen yoghurt while discovering how food preservation, fermentation, flavour development, and product design work in the real world. Through observation, taste testing, experimentation, budgeting, branding, and creative problem-solving, students learn how science and food innovation connect.
Throughout the unit, students take on the role of food developers—comparing ingredients, analysing textures and flavours, conducting simple investigations, recording data, calculating costs, and designing their own unique food concept. They will explore the cultural origins of traditional foods, learn safe food-handling practices, and develop an understanding of how food choices influence taste, nutrition, and value.
The unit culminates in a final showcase project where students create, test, cost, brand, and present their own food product or tasting concept. Portfolio evidence, reflections, recipe drafts, photographs, and presentation materials provide meaningful documentation of learning while encouraging creativity, communication, and entrepreneurial thinking.
Food Lab Adventures: Ferments, Flavours & Snack Science
Curious. Creative. Delicious.
Food Lab is a 7-lesson hands-on high school mini-unit that explores the fascinating science behind food. Students investigate traditional foods such as biltong, kimchi, and frozen yoghurt while discovering how food preservation, fermentation, flavour development, and product design work in the real world. Through observation, taste testing, experimentation, budgeting, branding, and creative problem-solving, students learn how science and food innovation connect.
Throughout the unit, students take on the role of food developers—comparing ingredients, analysing textures and flavours, conducting simple investigations, recording data, calculating costs, and designing their own unique food concept. They will explore the cultural origins of traditional foods, learn safe food-handling practices, and develop an understanding of how food choices influence taste, nutrition, and value.
The unit culminates in a final showcase project where students create, test, cost, brand, and present their own food product or tasting concept. Portfolio evidence, reflections, recipe drafts, photographs, and presentation materials provide meaningful documentation of learning while encouraging creativity, communication, and entrepreneurial thinking.
