Enzymes may be used in making cheese and junket, to tenderise meat, in extracting juice from fruit purées and for a variety of other tasks.

This guide identifies the types of plants that can be grown in school gardens or allotments. It includes a timeline for sowing, planting and harvesting as well as a monthly list of jobs.

This is a wall poster which shows when plants should sown, planted out and harvested, throughout the year. It comes from GL290 Growing Edible Plants.

Making a fruit salad can be useful to improve knife skills. The same practical skills are an essential part of working with food.

To extend this further the fruit could be part of a more complex dish, or the fruit could be swapped for vegetables as ingredients for soup or other recipes.