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

core courses

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 and enterprise management; Nutrition research institutions: nutritionists, nutrition research, medicinal diet research and development; Technical colleges: cooking and nutrition teachers.

postgraduate direction

master's 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 catering enterprise management talents with solid professional knowledge, strong practical ability and innovative ability; Training scientific research staff of medical diet and food nutrition research institutions; Cultivate applied teachers and senior professionals who have the qualification of nutritionist and undertake the teaching ability of higher vocational colleges.

Training requirements

1. Proficient in the basic knowledge, skills and related disciplines of cooking and nutrition;

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

3. Be familiar with educational laws and regulations, understand the laws of vocational education, master and be able to preliminarily apply basic theories of pedagogy and psychology and modern educational technology, have good teachers' quality, and have basic skills in cooking and 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 use English for information inquiry and document retrieval, read foreign books and periodicals of this major with reference books, and have certain professional English conversation ability;

6. Ability to obtain effective information by using modern information technology;

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