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Essential Cuisine unveils sensory food skills for schoolchildren

02 Mar 2021
Stocks and sauces supplier Essential Cuisine has prepared a selection of activities to teach schoolchildren about nutrition and cooking during the last few weeks of home-schooling.

The activities include:

  • The five basic tastes (sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savoury).
  • Food safety preparation (use of cutlery).
  • Teaching children to grow food such as herbs, fruits and vegetables.

Jonathan Harvey-Barnes, senior business development chef at Essential Cuisine, said: “Whilst working with key stage one children during the 'Chefs Adopt A School' Initiative, we will often prepare a fruit or vegetable salad with soft foods like banana or cucumber using serrated plastic knives.

“Engaging the children at grass-roots level not only helps them improve and hone basic kitchen skills, it’s also vital in helping them understand food and its importance on their individual well-being.”

As part of Essential Cuisine’s partnership with Love British Food they are always encouraging the foodservice industry to use locally sourced British produce when possible.