Food Nutrition Course

Nutritious snacks and meals are vital to the wellbeing of everyone today. People require high quality meals in order to grow and develop. This is to counter obesity and the life threatening diseases that come along with malnutrition and eating disorders. By a quality diet and adequate daily exercise, one can achieve being healthy, but knowing what to eat and at what quantities you will benefit not only for yourself need, but also helps in catering.

Objective and Goals

Importance of Staying Healthy in today's fast paced world

Healthcare and requirements of individual nutritional needs

Knowing the Nutrients Groups in the human diet and Nutritional Imbalances

To know the basic Nutrition Calculations

Importance of Food Labeling and analyze the nutritional content of recipes

Theory

The concept of healthy eating: Discussing all the aspects of healthy eating in order to stay fit and healthy even in today's busy life.

Food energy values: Discussing the basics of obtaining the energy value of food

Sources and functions of nutrient groups: Covering the macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein & fats) its functions sources and importance in the diet

Allergies & intolerance effecting different classes of society: Discussing the major food allergies and intolerances affecting the society

Food labeling: To understand why food labeling is done and used?

Practical

Recipe building: To understand the concept of recipe building and design a recipe

Basic learning on nutritive calculations

Practical analyzing recipes or formulas for nutritional content by utilizing the nutritive calculations