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Health Edco’s Faux Food Packages

For more than 20 years, Health Edco has produced the highest quality and most realistic food models available. With their soft but firm texture and intricate attention to detail, viewers can’t resist the urge to pick up our food models and take a closer look. These durable, lifelike faux foods are a great nutrition education investment, enabling nutrition educators to use them again and again for one-on-one and classroom instruction as well as in informative nutrition education displays.

Health Edco offers faux food packages for a variety of educational purposes and budgets, ranging in sets from 57 to seven faux foods. For example, with 41 food models, the Faux Foods MyPlate Deluxe Package includes a variety of foods from each of MyPlate’s food groups and is ideal to discuss the MyPlate food guidance system. Great to teach people with diabetes about dietary choices, the Faux Foods Diabetic Exchange Package features 39 food models, including desserts, and is a good tool to teach about classifications of processed foods. Each with seven food models, our Faux Foods Fruit Package and Faux Foods Vegetable Package are perfect to discuss the importance of eating a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables.

Each of our faux foods packages comes with a nutrition information food card for each food. These food cards provide information about each food’s calorie, fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrate, and protein content. Where applicable, they also address potential advantages or disadvantages of consuming each food. The cards are ideal to compare each food’s nutritional content and get students and patients to consider which foods offer the best nutritional choices and which might be better consumed only occasionally or in limited amounts.

The nutrition information on each faux food’s accompanying food card matches the portion size of the faux food, making it easy for viewers to understand the calorie and nutrition content of a particular portion size. This correspondence with portion size and nutrition information helps patients and students visualize how a larger portion of the same food often translates into extra calories, saturated fat, and added sugars.

We’ve updated each of our faux foods packages to include a convenient carrying tote, making the packages perfect for nutrition education on-the-go! With the exception of our Faux Foods Nutrition During Pregnancy Package (which comes with a large Childbirth Graphics Tote Bag), each faux foods package includes a roomy Health Edco Faux Food Tote that can carry all 57 food models in our Faux Foods Deluxe Starter Package. The bag features a sturdy zipper closure, carrying handles, and a roomy front pocket that can easily accommodate food cards, teaching notes, catalogs, and more supplementary nutrition teaching materials. With a thermal foil interior, the bag can also be used to carry real foods and keep them hot or cold.

March may be National Nutrition Month^®, but every day is a great day for nutrition education! From faux food packages to nutrition education activities, displays, charts, and handouts, discover our full line of engaging nutrition teaching tools.

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