The department emphasis on the fundamental principels of nutrition and food science. The study program covers main aspects of food material production, handling, processing, distribution and final consumption. Also, food processing covers general characteristic of food materials, principels of food preservation, processing factors that influence quality, packaging, food biotechnology, as well as food hygiene, food safety and control.
Graduates are able to work in the following fields:
- Hospitals (clinical dietian).
- Governmental and private food analysis and food quality departments.
- Food processing factories.
- Establishment of private food processing units.
Research activities focus on the different aspects of human nutrition, diet therapy, traditional food, food science and technology and food biotechnology. Furthermore, the department has intensified extra- curricular activities in the form of consultations, seminars and workshops.
1- Nutrition during life stages
2- Food Biotechnology
3- Food Safety and Hygiene
4- Human Nutrition
5- Meat Processing
6- Food Microbiology
7- Diet Therapy
8- Principles of animal production
9- Food Quality Control
10- Microbiology
11- Cereal Processing
12- Nutrition & Food Processing
13- Food Preservation & Processing
14- Food Analysis
15- Food Chemistry
16- Dairy Processing
17- Animal Physiology