Food & Cooking · Unit 1

What We Eat

Food groups, meals and where our food comes from

Food is the subject everyone already has years of experience in, which makes it an unusually good place to notice how much of that experience is habit rather than knowledge.

The unit covers the food groups and what each is for, where food actually comes from before the shop, the structure of meals, how taste and smell work together, and why water matters more than any of it.

This unit breaks down into 19 short steps and 115 questions, starting at difficulty 1 and building to 2. Below you can see exactly what it covers, how the path is structured, and worked examples with explanations.

Steps: 19
Questions: 115
Difficulty: 1-2

What this unit covers

Food Groups
Where Food Comes From
Meals of the Day
Taste and Smell
Drinking Water

Where this fits

The first unit in the track. Nutrition and the Body is the advanced version.

Where people slip

Most of what people call taste is smell. The tongue detects five basic tastes; everything else - the difference between an apple and a pear - arrives through the nose.

How the unit is structured

What We Eat runs as 19 short steps that unlock in order. 14 are practice rounds and 5 are challenge rounds that pull together everything before them. Questions start at difficulty 1 and climb to 2 as you progress.

Step 1 · easierStep 19 · harder

Challenge rounds

Example questions

30 real questions from this unit, with the answer and the reason behind it, grouped by what they practise. There are 115 in the unit altogether.

Drinking Water

Build the sentenceLevel 1
1. Build a sentence about water.
Answer: Your body needs water every single day
Your body needs water every single day.
Choose all that applyLevel 1
2. Which are healthy everyday drinks? Pick all that apply.
- Watercorrect
- Milkcorrect
- Unsweetened fruit-infused watercorrect
- A big fizzy energy drink
Water, milk and unsweetened drinks are everyday choices.
Fact or fibLevel 1
3. Fizzy sugary drinks are the best choice for everyday thirst.
Answer: False
False. Water is best for everyday drinking.
Fill the blankLevel 1
4. Your body loses water when you ____, so you must drink more.
- sweatcorrect
- sleep
- read
- sing
Sweating cools the body but uses water.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
5. Why is water important for your body?
- Your body needs it to work properlycorrect
- It makes food louder
- It replaces sleep
- It is not important
Your body is mostly water and needs more every day to work properly.
True or falseLevel 1
6. You lose water when you sweat, so you need to drink more on a hot day.
Answer: True
True. Sweating cools you but uses up water.

Food Groups

Build the sentenceLevel 1
7. Build a sentence about food.
Answer: Food gives our bodies energy to grow
Food gives our bodies energy to grow.
Choose all that applyLevel 1
8. Which of these are fruits? Pick all that apply.
- Applecorrect
- Orangecorrect
- Grapecorrect
- Potato
Apples, oranges and grapes all grow on plants and hold seeds.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
9. Why do we need to eat food?
- It gives us energy to live and growcorrect
- It makes us taller instantly
- It helps us see in the dark
- It is only for fun
Food gives our bodies energy to move, grow and stay warm.
Sort into groupsLevel 1
10. Sort each food into the right group.
Answer: Apple = Fruit; Pear = Fruit; Broccoli = Vegetable; Carrot = Vegetable
Foods are grouped by what they are made of.
True or falseLevel 1
11. Eating a mix of different foods is better than eating only one thing.
Answer: True
True. Different foods give the body different things it needs.
Type the answerLevel 1
12. What do we call a meal with foods from lots of different groups?
Answer: balanced
A balanced meal has a mix of foods.

Meals of the Day

Choose all that applyLevel 1
13. Which are usually breakfast foods somewhere in the world? Pick all that apply.
- Porridgecorrect
- Eggscorrect
- Rice soupcorrect
- A birthday cake with candles
Porridge, eggs and rice soup are all breakfast foods in different countries.
Match the pairsLevel 1
14. Match each food to where it comes from.
Answer: Apple = A tree; Milk = A cow; Egg = A hen; Carrot = The soil
Some foods come from plants and some from animals.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
15. Which meal do people usually eat first in the day?
- Breakfastcorrect
- Dinner
- Supper
- A midnight snack
Breakfast is the first meal after a night of sleep.
Put in orderLevel 1
16. Put these meals in the order most people eat them.
Answer: Breakfast -> Lunch -> Dinner
Breakfast, lunch, then dinner.
True or falseLevel 1
17. People in different countries eat different foods for breakfast.
Answer: True
True. Breakfast might be rice and soup, bread, or eggs, depending on where you live.
Type the answerLevel 1
18. What is the small amount of food you eat between meals called?
Answer: snack
A snack is a small bite between meals.

Taste and Smell

Choose all that applyLevel 1
19. Which are basic tastes? Pick all that apply.
- Sweetcorrect
- Saltycorrect
- Bittercorrect
- Crunchy
Sweet, salty and bitter are three of the basic tastes.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
20. Which of these is a basic taste?
- Sweetcorrect
- Loud
- Cold
- Shiny
Sweet is one of the basic tastes, along with sour, salty, bitter and savoury.
Odd one outLevel 1
21. Which of these is NOT a taste?
- Crunchycorrect
- Sweet
- Sour
- Salty
Crunchy is a texture you feel, not a taste.
True or falseLevel 1
22. Food tastes different when your nose is blocked.
Answer: True
True. Much of what we call taste is really smell.
Build the sentenceLevel 2
23. Build a sentence about flavour.
Answer: Flavour combines taste smell and texture together
Flavour combines taste smell and texture together.
Fact or fibLevel 2
24. Everyone tastes food in exactly the same way.
Answer: False
False. Sensitivity to tastes varies from person to person.

Where Food Comes From

Choose all that applyLevel 1
25. Which foods come from animals? Pick all that apply.
- Eggscorrect
- Milkcorrect
- Honeycorrect
- Bread
Eggs, milk and honey all come from animals.
Fill the blankLevel 1
26. A plant grown deliberately in large amounts for food is a ____.
- cropcorrect
- weed
- rock
- tool
Crops are grown on farms for harvest.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
27. Where does milk come from?
- Cows and other animalscorrect
- Trees
- The sea
- A factory only
Most milk we drink comes from cows on dairy farms.
Picture questionLevel 1
28. 🥕 Which food is shown here, and where does it grow?
- A carrot, which grows underground
- An apple, which grows on a tree
- A fish, which lives in water
- Bread, which is baked
Carrots are roots that grow under the soil.
True or falseLevel 1
29. Potatoes grow under the ground.
Answer: True
True. The part we eat is a swollen underground stem.
Fact or fibLevel 2
30. Buying local always has a smaller environmental footprint than importing.
Answer: False
False. How the food was produced usually matters more than how far it travelled.

Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.

How you practise

This unit mixes 12 different question formats, so you are recalling and applying rather than recognising the same layout every time.

Build the sentence
Choose all that apply
Fact or fib
Fill the blank
Match the pairs
Multiple choice
Odd one out
Picture question
Put in order
Sort into groups
True or false
Type the answer

Practise What We Eat

115 questions across 19 steps. Start with step one and crawl at your own pace.

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Read about What We Eat

Explainers from our blog on what this unit covers. Each one ends with real questions from the bank.

What Are the Five Basic Tastes?Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami, what each one detects, and why taste and flavour are not the same thing.August 28, 2026 · 5 min read

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