Overview
Healthy eating makes a healthy body and mind. Topics covered in the Human Nutrition Part 2 course from Warnborough College include how cooking and food processing affect nutrition, recommended nutrient intakes, assessing nutritional needs, planning a balanced diet, timing of meals, needs for special people/groups.
What you will learn
Here are just some of the things you may be doing in this course:
- Determine the reasons for cooking food.
- Compare different methods of cooking food in terms of their effect on both health and nutrition.
- Explain the effects on nutrition of cooking different types of foods, for different periods of time
- Explain how meat can be ensured to be fit for human consumption in a raw state, such as in sushi and in smallgoods
- Distinguish between function, effects, and chemistry of different types of food additives, in food preparation
- Evaluate taste and nutritional effects of adding different specified flavourings to five different specified food dishes
- Explain, giving examples of specific foods, how “freshness” of different specified foods, impacts upon nutrient status of those foods
- Explain how physical treatment of different specified foods (eg. cutting or crushing), may affect the food benefit of that food
- Explain different heat treatments for food preservation; in terms of the process, function and affects
- Explain freezing of food, in terms of the process, function and affects
- Define examples of each of the following types of food additives
- Distinguish between function, effects, and chemistry of different types of food additives, in food preservation
Programme Structure
Lessons:
- Cooking and Its Effect on Nutrition
- Food Processing and Its Effect on Nutrition
- Recommended Daily Intake of Nutrients
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Planning a Balanced Diet
- Assessing Nutritional Status & Needs
- Timing of Meals & Needs for Special Groups
Key information
Start dates & application deadlines
You may enrol and start at any time of the year – it’s all self-paced.
Language
Delivered
- Self-paced
Disciplines
Nutrition & Dietetics Health Sciences View 36 other Short Courses in Nutrition & Dietetics in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Tuition Fee
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International
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme -
National
395 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 395 GBP for the full programme