Taste Education
We help schools and nurseries to deliver taste education, to give every child the opportunity to experience the joy of fresh vegetables and fruits. We believe learning about food should be more carrot, less stick.
What is TastEd?
What is our aim?
TastEd is a group of educators, writers and campaigners working to change the way that food education is taught in the U.K. and beyond. Our aim is to help build a generation of children who have a wider palate for healthy foods, especially vegetables and fruits, and a positive relationship with food and their own bodies.
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What do we do?
TastEd offers a system of fun sensory food lessons based on the Sapere method, which has been used with great success in many European counties for decades. In Sapere lessons a child learns to respond to many different foods – mostly vegetables and fruits – with all the five senses.
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Latest News
Herbs & Memories by Naomi Rayner
If you want to get an idea of TastEd, one of the simplest ways is to take a fresh mint leaf, smell it and try to say what it reminds you of. We do this as an ice breaker in our teacher training sessions and we also do it in many of our TastEd lessons […]
Playing with Your Food by A Parent
Like many people, I was brought up not to play with my food. To those of the wartime generation, there was an understandable fear of wasting so much as a scrap and a sense that playing with what was on your plate somehow disrespectful. But what if playing with food could be a way for […]
TastEd and Veg Power
Earlier this spring, when it was hard to imagine we would now be in lockdown, the TastEd team was thrilled to collaborate with Veg Power on the launch of their 2020 schools programme. Veg Power is an organisation on a mission to get British children to eat more vegetables – a goal shared by TastEd. […]
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