Summary presentation

Taste Lessons is a school based nutrition education programme about food and taste. It is developed by Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. In Taste Lessons children perform experiments by using all their senses. They discover new food products, learn about food production and health effects of food.

In this presentation you will see an example of a Taste Mission about Fruit. A Taste Mission is an innovative way to connect hands-on activities to a broader food education programme.

Some background information

Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is one of the partners of Learn4Health. The mission of WUR is ‘To explore the potential of nature to improve quality of life’.

Steunpunt Smaaklessen & EU-Schoolfruit is a part of WUR. It is a project agency which focuses on food education for children. Their main food education programme is called Smaaklessen (Taste Lessons).

Taste Lessons is a school based nutrition education programme about food and taste (grade 1-8). The aim of the programme is to increase children’s knowledge and interest in food and to teach them different food skills. This will help children to become capable of making healthy and sustainable food choices.

Annelou Vernooij studied Nutrition & Health at Wageningen University & Research and continued to work for the university. She is now working as a project manager for Taste lessons. She also develops new teaching materials, is working on digitalization of all the food education materials and is involved in communication, implementation and innovation of the different projects. In addition, she works with great pleasure on the international Learn4Health project.