Nutrition Project

GETTING STARTED

Select one edible food item to feature in the advertisement. It can be a single whole food, like a banana, a recipe or a dish, like salsa, an ingredient, like cinnamon, or a product category, like cereal. The advertisements must be original, so avoid existing packaged products, like ‘Clif Bars’.

The Written Portion

The written portion summarizes sections A, B, and C below. It does not require a market research review, nor will it be evaluated based on the marketing data it presents. The team’s ability to align a food with the nutrients featured, the biological functions those nutrients possess, and consumer wants and needs will be the primary basis for grading. Information gathering is needed to complete the written portion, but works cited are unnecessary.

A. Describe the food. Include information like where it originates, how it is customarily eaten or used, where it is purchased, what food group it fits into, and, for multi-ingredient products, what the main ingredients are. The most important part of section A is to identify 2-3 nutrients or phytochemicals that provide in one serving an amount that qualifies to use the FDA nutrition claims described in C and satisfies the nutrition needs of the audience described in B. The nutrition information for most single and multi-ingredient food servings can be found at Food Data Central.

B. Describe the target audience. Include demographic information about who buys the food, what about it they value, which styles and cultures they might identify with, and most importantly, what their nutrition needs are.

C. Describe the advertisement. Include information about the delivery format, whether video, graphic, song, etc., and the fonts, colors, and artistic themes that will attract the target audience. The most important part of section C is the description of two featured FDA-approved nutrition claims that will appear in the ad. The claims can be Nutrient Content Claims, Health Claims, or Structure-Function Claims, but they must be relevant to the target audience, legitimate, and properly worded. To learn the FDA criteria for Nutrient Content Claims use, review Appendix A-B, and to differentiate between Health and Structure-Function claims and the requirements for their use, review Appendix C.

The Graphic Portion

The graphic advertisement is a visual product of the descriptions provided in the written sections A-C. It can be in any format- digital or print, hand-drawn, colored, black and white, realistic, abstract, still, or video recorded- as long as the theme appeals to the target audience, the food item, and two nutrition claims are displayed, and the presentation details are on point. The advertisement must be embedded beneath this heading, The Graphic Portion (external links are okay as long as they work), in the same pdf file as The Written Portion.

I have attached an example on the files.

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