analyse sources

• Nutritionist:

  • Holds a tertiary qualification in fields related to food science, nutrition, and public health.
  • Focuses on providing information about the impact of food choices on health and wellbeing.
  • Often works in community or public health roles, including research, and may design health promotion programs aimed at improving healthy eating.
• Dietitian:

  • Holds tertiary-level qualifications in food, nutrition, and dietetics.
  • Completed additional study involving professional practice, such as in public health settings, hospitals, and medical therapy.
  • Provides dietary treatments for various conditions, including diabetes, food allergies, anorexia, and obesity.
• R.E.A.L. strategy to see whether your source is reliable


  1. Read the URL

  2. Examine the site's contents

  3. Ask about the author's name

  4. Look at the links
• R- read

  Non-commercial sites, such as those ending in .org, .edu

  and .gov, are generally reliable sources. Websites with .com may be commercial

  sites trying to sell a product, and therefore may not be a reliable source of

  information.
• E- examine

  the site’s contents. Look at the author, publisher and organisation.

  What are their credentials? Who funds the website or app? Check if the material

  is current.
• A- ask

  about the author’s name. Can you find the details of the author or

  publisher if you wish to contact them?
• L - look

  at the links. What type of pages are they linking to? Are these

  credible sources and do they end in .gov, .edu, or .org?