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WESTERN NEWS Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
Thursday <strong>August</strong> 5 <strong>2021</strong> 5<br />
Food fight to figure out health facts<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
FOUR HIGH School students<br />
are on a mission to educate<br />
children about what really goes<br />
into their food.<br />
Food Fight is a fun, educational<br />
card game created by<br />
Cashmere year 13 students<br />
Oakley Inkersell, Rosa Kelly,<br />
Aljaž Smrekar and Jack Carran,<br />
in response to child obesity in<br />
New Zealand.<br />
The Young Enterprise Scheme<br />
business studies project has been<br />
such a hit in the last few months<br />
that it can now be found in selected<br />
supermarkets and schools.<br />
Said Inkersell, Food Fight chief<br />
executive: “When I was younger<br />
I was overweight and I didn’t<br />
know anything about nutrition.<br />
I wish I had a resource like Food<br />
Fight to educate me as a kid and<br />
to know what it did to my body.”<br />
Kelly said there was not<br />
enough education in schools in<br />
relation to nutrition.<br />
“It’s one of the core problems<br />
for the child obesity crisis in<br />
New Zealand,” she said.<br />
“With this game, we feel like<br />
it’s a fun and interactive way to<br />
teach kids about nutrition and in<br />
schools, children will have more<br />
control over their health.”<br />
The students wanted to promote<br />
balance – no food had a<br />
positive or negative connotation<br />
in the game, rather it was about<br />
presenting the facts and allowing<br />
children to make educated<br />
choices about their diet.<br />
Each of the 52 cards incorporated<br />
te reo Māori and contained<br />
a picture of food typically eaten<br />
by children, such as fruit, sandwiches,<br />
mince pies or ice cream.<br />
What followed was a real<br />
breakdown of nutrients in the<br />
food, including calories and fat<br />
and sugar content.<br />
Food Fight used this<br />
information to form a game in a<br />
similar style to the Top Trumps<br />
card game. The aim is to have the<br />
most cards received off of other<br />
players by winning rounds.<br />
Said Oakley: “You win rounds<br />
by battling with the categories on<br />
the cards, which are calories, fat,<br />
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protein, carbs, sugar and price.<br />
The person with the highest or<br />
lowest statistic depending on<br />
what category wins that round.”<br />
In spite of the Food Fight<br />
team heading off to Canterbury<br />
University next year, they were<br />
still keen on seeing the business<br />
grow.<br />
So far about 120 decks have<br />
been sold to parents, teachers<br />
HEALTHY: Year 13 students Oakley<br />
Inkersell, Rosa Kelly and Aljaz Smrekar<br />
show off Food Fight, an educational<br />
card game for children.<br />
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN <br />
and businesses, with growing<br />
interest from doctors who<br />
saw it as a tool that could be<br />
prescribed.<br />
“We’ve also been contacted<br />
by parents of children with<br />
type 1 diabetes who said that<br />
Food Fight has been perfect for<br />
helping their kids learn about<br />
how much sugar is in their<br />
favourite food,” Oakley said.<br />
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