Nutrition education made easy.

Learning about food is fun, eye-opening, and easily digestible with our free, standards-aligned, interactive lessons at home or in the classroom.

Classroom Workshop   Downloadable Game 

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Food Detectives

Ongoing funding provided by the Beecher’s Foundation and the Paulus Foundation.

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  • Interactive & Engaging

  • STEM Based

  • Hands-On

  • Free!

  • Standards Aligned

  • Interactive & Engaging

  • STEM Based

  • Hands-On

  • Free!

  • Standards Aligned

  • Interactive & Engaging

  • STEM Based

  • Hands-On

  • Free!

  • Standards Aligned

  • Interactive & Engaging

  • STEM Based

  • Hands-On

  • Free!

  • Standards Aligned

Free. Fun.
Standards Aligned.

In The Classroom

Our free Food Detectives workshop keeps fourth graders engaged with animations, secret missions, and puzzles—all while building smart food habits.

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At Home (Coming Soon!)

The Food Detectives game is STEM focused and learning standards aligned, designed to help kids learn how to analyze nutrition labels, interrogate ingredients, and sniff out sneaky marketing.

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1 in 5 kids in the U.S. is affected by obesity, a rate that’s tripled since the 1970s.

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$2 billion is spent on marketing highly processed foods to kids.

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Nearly 70% of kids’ calories come from highly-processed foods.

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We’re not here to tell kids what to eat

We’re here to give them the skills to investigate their food like pros. No fad diets, no judgment—just real-world tools to analyze labels, question advertising, and make informed choices.

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Free

Food Detectives is always free and easy to implement. Just log in to our website, add your classroom, and facilitate our interactive lessons using a smartboard or projector.

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Interactive

Kids become “Food Detectives” through fun, hands-on lessons filled with videos, games, and group activities.

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STEM-Based

It’s science, math, technology, and critical thinking all rolled into one tasty investigation.

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Standards Aligned

Whether you’re focused on social-emotional learning, math, health and nutrition, or technology, our program has got you covered!

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