Food and Nutrition Science (With Professional Practice Year)

University of Bedfordshire

With the world facing a host of food-safety issues and diet-related health problems food and nutrition have never been more relevant. This course gets you to the heart of this fast-developing field opening up a wide range of exciting career paths.Nowadays food travels as fast as people and the need to supply adequate quantities of safe healthy and diversified food from production to consumption calls for skilled knowledgeable and practice-ready food scientists.This degree gives you the skills and knowledge you need starting with the core fields of food and nutrition: human anatomy physiology microbiology biochemistry and the principles of food and nutrition. You then go on to explore specialised areas such as clinical nutrition immunology food microbiology and biotechnology. Throughout you develop your ability to relate results to theory with practical laboratory training in the latest biochemical and molecular experiments.