Chilled Food Science

The UK’s chilled food production sector offers a wealth of ways to turn your students’ passion for science into rewarding, opportunity-filled careers. A science degree opens the door to applied science careers with attractive salaries, responsibility, continuous professional development and, in many cases, international travel. This fast-paced, constantly evolving and dynamic industry is growing all the time and with it the demand for high calibre graduates. At the moment there are an estimated 200 science-degree requiring vacant roles in the sector. 

Chilled Education provides a unique link between teachers, students and the industry.  Its package of innovative, mainly free, resources is designed by teachers and industry specialists to help make your science lessons even more inspiring, informative and relevant. It also brings professionals into the classroom to share their experiences and invites teachers to witness first-hand the application of science in chilled food production.

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Chilled Education – inspiring future generations of food scientists

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The Chilled Food Association (CFA) has produced new and engaging resources to support KS2 teaching about microorganisms. Downloadable lesson...
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Careers information for the UK chilled food manufacturing industry where science graduates and apprentices are in high demand. With more than 20...
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Food and drinks have a shelf life after which, they may not be pleasant to eat or may be dangerous to consume. In this lesson students will use...
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In this lesson, students learn how microbes can be used to make food and drink. They stain bacteria from a yoghurt drink using a Gram stain and set...
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Cut iceberg lettuce oxidises and this causes a pink discolouration of the leaf. Modifying the gases in the packaging of cut lettuce can increase the...
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In this lesson students use on-line modelling software to discover how temperature affects the growth of bacteria. They research different bacteria...
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In this lesson, students cover the concepts of variation and adaptation and apply these ideas to examples of bacteria that show variation in their...
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