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You may be able to do a food technologist advanced apprenticeship then move on to a food industry technical professional degree apprenticeship. Entry requirements Identify how and which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and play an important role in treating/preventing disease. You’ll study examples of food as medicine, including the FODMAP diet for IBS and probiotics for gut health. Find out how your body controls your appetite and learn more about the eating pattern known as ‘food addiction’. Mindful eating and the future of food Explore the importance of food processing in the journey from farm to fork to understand how crops are converted into nutritious and appealing food items for consumers.

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below. This course has been certified by the Association for Nutrition. It meets AfN standards for nutrition training of individuals working at Level 1 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). You could improve your career prospects by getting Registered Scientist (RSci) or Chartered Scientist (CSci) status through the Institute of Food Science and Technology. This course will have broad general interest appeal to everyone interested in food, nutrition and health. But it will be of particular interest to healthcare professionals who are looking to have more evidenced-based information, to assist them in providing food-based recommendations to their patients. AfN Certified Course

The British Nutrition Foundation is grateful for financial support from the All Saints Educational Trust to enable us to develop this resource. Join Home Economics and SEN teacher Niamh McManus, who over the years has adapted many recipes to... On this course, you’ll learn how food science and nutrition helps us to understand and study the fascinating world of food.

Kahoot quizzes can be used as part of live lessons either online or face-to-face. Find out more about the Kahoot quizzes on Healthy eating, Cooking and Where food comes from for pupils aged 11-14 years here and 14-16 years here. If you, or your pupils haven't used Kahoot before, why not have a read of our handy guide?

You’ll examine how new food technologies are revolutionising food production and how new products are developed. You could work for a range of organisations involved in researching and developing new products, including: Food - a fact of life provides Explore Food, a free user-friendly online nutritional analysis tool for secondary school pupils. How much iron is in your cereal? In this experiment, you will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. Which brand of cereal will have the most iron in it?

Analyse the biological pathways of digestion to discover how different nutrients travel and are absorbed by the body. Are you interested in learning how food can be used as medicine? If you want to understand the power of nutrition, this 3-week course will teach you about the role of food in improving health.Music from the UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music that is distributed by Smithsonian Folkways ​ Explore food has been designed to be easy to use, guiding pupils through the analysis of a recipe or a day’s diet. It provides data for the pupil to analyse and draw conclusions away from their PC or tablet, further supporting their studies.