Questions about the Food Groups poster

What’s on the Food Groups poster?

12 entries in 4 groups. A proportion-based approach rather than a numeric one. Half the plate: Vegetables and salad, Variety of colours, Fresh, frozen or tinned all…; A quarter: Protein — meat, fish, eggs, pulses, tofu, Include oily fish weekly; A quarter: Wholegrain carbohydrate, Rice, pasta, bread, potatoes, Wholegrain where po…; Alongside: Some dairy or fortified alternative, Unsaturated oils in small amounts, Fr…. General guidance. Individual needs vary with health conditions, and a dietitian can adapt this properly.

Who is the Food Groups poster for?

Food Groups belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Food Groups poster?

Fill half the plate with vegetables first. Everything else fits around them. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Food Groups belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Food Groups?

Added Sugar, Alcohol Units and Caffeine sit alongside Food Groups in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Added SugarAlcohol UnitsCaffeine

Is the Food Groups poster free to download and print?

Yes. Food Groups downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Food Groups poster print at?

Food Groups is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Food Groups loses nothing.Printing guide