Cooking and nutrition education mainly studies the basic knowledge and skills of cooking, nutrition, management and education, and conducts research on food nutrition and management in catering enterprises.

core curriculum

Cooking technology, cooking raw materials, cooking nutrition, pastry technology, catering management and practice, Chinese medicine diet health care, central kitchen design and operation, modern kitchen management, etc.

Employment direction

Catering enterprises: chefs, food research and development, quality supervision, enterprise management; Nutrition research institutions: nutritionists, nutrition research, medicinal diet research and development; Cooking and nutrition teacher.

Postgraduate entrance examination direction

Master degree in agricultural product processing and storage engineering, nutrition and food hygiene, food processing and safety, food science, food, oil and vegetable protein engineering, and food engineering.

Training objectives

This major trains management talents of catering enterprises with solid professional knowledge, strong practical ability and innovative ability; Training scientific research personnel of medical diet and food nutrition research institutions; Cultivate applied teachers and senior professionals who are qualified as nutritionists and undertake the teaching ability of higher vocational colleges.

Training requirements

1, master the basic knowledge of cooking and nutrition, basic skills and basic knowledge of similar disciplines;

2. Understand the frontier of culinary development, and have the ability to solve practical problems by using cooking and nutrition theory;

3. Familiar with education laws and regulations, understand the laws of vocational education, master and be able to apply basic theories of pedagogy and psychology and modern educational technology, have good teacher quality, and have basic skills in cooking, nutrition teaching and research;

4. Have certain computer skills, be proficient in using computer operating systems, and have the ability to conduct preliminary data analysis;

5. Be able to query information and retrieve documents in English, read foreign books and periodicals of this major with reference books, and have certain professional English conversation ability;

6, the ability to use modern information technology to obtain effective information;

7, have the preliminary ability to write scientific papers and carry out scientific research, have strong professional practical skills, and obtain the corresponding skill level certificate.