Food Science

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The study of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of food, including their processing, preservation, safety, quality, and sensory attributes, with a focus on meeting consumer preferences and nutritional needs.

Food Chemistry: Understanding the chemical composition, properties, and interactions of food ingredients and their effect on food processing and preservation.
Food Microbiology: Study of microorganisms that cause foodborne illness, spoilage, and fermentation in food products.
Food Processing: Techniques used to turn raw ingredients into finished food products, including preservation, dehydration, and packaging.
Food Preservation: Methods used to extend the shelf life of food products, such as canning, freezing, and smoking.
Food Safety: Techniques for ensuring food products are free from contamination and safe for consumption, including hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP).
Quality Control: Ensuring that food products meet established quality standards, including sensory evaluation and laboratory analysis.
Food Packaging: The use of packaging materials to protect and preserve food products during distribution and storage.
Food Engineering: Application of engineering principles to the design and operation of food processing equipment and facilities.
Food Nutrition: Understanding the role of nutrients in food and the effect of food on human health and wellness.
Sustainable Agriculture: Practices used to minimize the impact on the environment while producing food, including reduced use of pesticides and fertilizers and conservation of water resources.
Food chemistry: The study of the chemical components of food and how they interact with each other.
Food microbiology: The study of microorganisms in food, including their growth, metabolism, and interactions with the food environment.
Food processing: The application of engineering, chemistry, and microbiology principles to the preservation and modification of food products.
Food engineering: The development and implementation of technologies and processes for the production, packaging, and distribution of food.
Food packaging: The design and development of packaging materials and systems for food products.
Food safety: The prevention of foodborne illness and the implementation of measures to ensure the safety of food products.
Food sensory science: The study of how humans perceive and respond to the sensory properties of food, including taste, smell, texture, and appearance.
Food nutrition: The study of the relationship between food and health, including the role of nutrients in the body, dietary requirements, and the effects of food on disease.
Food policy: The development and implementation of policies related to food production, distribution, and consumption.
Food sustainability: The study of the environmental, social, and economic impacts of food production and the development of sustainable food systems.
- "Food science is the basic science and applied science of food; its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology."
- "Food science brings together multiple scientific disciplines. It incorporates concepts from fields such as chemistry, physics, physiology, microbiology, and biochemistry."
- "Food technology incorporates concepts from chemical engineering, for example."
- "Activities of food scientists include the development of new food products, design of processes to produce these foods, choice of packaging materials, shelf-life studies, sensory evaluation of products using survey panels or potential consumers, as well as microbiological and chemical testing."
- "Activities of food scientists include the development of new food products."
- "Activities of food scientists include the design of processes to produce these foods."
- "Activities of food scientists include the choice of packaging materials."
- "Activities of food scientists include shelf-life studies."
- "Activities of food scientists include sensory evaluation of products using survey panels or potential consumers."
- "Activities of food scientists include microbiological and chemical testing."
- "Food scientists may study more fundamental phenomena that are directly linked to the production of food products and its properties."
- "Its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety and food processing, informing the development of food technology."
- "Food science incorporates concepts from fields such as chemistry, physics, physiology, microbiology, and biochemistry."
- "Food technology incorporates concepts from chemical engineering, for example."
- "Sensory evaluation of products using survey panels or potential consumers."
- "Activities of food scientists include microbiological and chemical testing."
- "Its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science and leads through the scientific aspects of food safety."
- "Its scope starts at overlap with agricultural science and nutritional science."
- "Activities of food scientists include the development of new food products."
- "Activities of food scientists include the choice of packaging materials."