Healthy Cultural Foods
It is essential to understand the nutritional value of varying cultural foods to provide adequate nutrition education to ethnically diverse students!
Discovering the health benefits of various cultural foods can expand teachers' knowledge & exposure to potentially novel food items and help to better understand the nutritional quality of the food items students bring to school.
Popular Cultural Dishes
Click on each "+" to learn about various traditional dishes from cultures around the world!
Different cultures place greater emphasis on varying food groups depending on historic food availability, food preferences, and cultural traditions!
Take a look at the food pyramids below to see the composition of various traditional cultural diets
Reference: Oldways Cultural Food Traditions (www.oldwayspt.org)