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Food product development and nutrition security
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About This Course
This module explores the journey /food product/ nutrition from initial concept to product development, prototype, and formulations. The students go through the steps of identifying the needs of the consumers, generating ideas, screening the ideas in terms of feasibility, and developing their own prototypes. The sensory and physicochemical properties of prototypes are tested.
What you'll learn
- Know the principles of new product design
- Apply previous knowledge of food chemistry, food microbiology, food processing, and nutrition in the development of a new product
- Apply knowledge of sensory Science to Food Product Development
- Apply knowledge of statistics to the development of a new product
- Utilize various resources (including the library) to effectively determine issues to be addressed in developing a new product.
- Function in a group of people with diverse backgrounds.
- Incorporate the input of different disciplines in product design.
- To explain food product and nutrition development that ensure integrity through the food chain
- To develop novel and innovative food products.
Syllabus
Nutrition Through the Life Stages
- Nutrition Basics
- Nutrition Concepts
- physiological principles
- Nutritional Needs
Food Chemistry and Analysis
- Introduction, Sampling, and Sampling Errors
- Reliability of Analysis & Calculations
- Analytical laboratory techniques and methods
- Food Analysis
- Ash and Mineral Analysis
- Lipid Analysis
- Protein Analysis
Current and Emerging Trends in Food Technology
- Current Food Trend
- Nutrient Structure
- Functional Food
- Emerging Processing Methods
- Introduction to Food Quality and Legislation
- Legislation of Labelling and Claims
- Food Safety Legislation
- Special Food Legislation
- Inspection and Enforcement
Food Product Development
- Concept of Marketing, product goals
- New product failure and success
- Overview of product development
- Packaging
- Technical developments in the laboratory
- Product Evaluation
- Shelf life of packaged goods, its measurement and prediction
- Launching the new product
Food Business, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
- Concept of Food Business, Innovation, Entrepreneurship
- Food Innovative
- SME
- Production Analysis
Meet your instructors
Pin Tara
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