According to the business scope, work content and professional characteristics of public nutritionists, the knowledge structure is divided into two parts: basic knowledge and skills. From the perspective of disciplines, it can be divided into modern nutrition, traditional Chinese medicine nutrition and life science.
Modern nutrition: basic nutrition, clinical nutrition, food nutritional value, food pollution and prevention, food poisoning prevention, China residents' dietary pagoda, and special population nutrition. Life science of nutritional catering: such as flavonoids and spirulina.
Traditional Chinese medicine nutrition: the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the conditioning of traditional Chinese medicine diet, the tropism of dietary taste, and the nourishing diet with the same origin of medicine and food. And the application of common food and nourishing diet. The basic knowledge includes 12 course, and the skill part includes 12 course. Skills are the application of basic knowledge.
Nutritionists are also divided into clinical nutritionists, public nutritionists, food nutritionists, sports nutritionists and catering nutritionists because of their combination with different objects.
Clinical nutritionists are mainly engaged in disease-related nutrition, making reasonable meals for patients and designing recipes suitable for different patients. They mainly work in hospitals and are often called nutritionists. Most of these nutritionists graduated from the preventive medicine department of medical college/university.
Public dietitians, also known as public dietitians, are related to the public, mainly engaged in the dissemination of nutrition knowledge, mass nutrition surveys, the planning of various nutrition-related social activities, and the planning of film and television literature related to nutrition knowledge publicity and education. Its work content is mostly intangible products such as nutrition knowledge.
Food nutritionist, mainly working in food enterprises, is mainly responsible for food development and other food-related nutrition work. Sports nutritionist is a nutritionist who provides nutrition guidance for athletes.
Professional athletes or sports enthusiasts, they exercise more than ordinary people, and their nutritional needs are also quite different from ordinary people. Therefore, this kind of human nutrition has special requirements and should be carried out by professional sports nutritionists, which is beneficial to their health.
Catering nutritionist, mainly engaged in catering-related nutrition work, such as nutrition catering plan, nutrition recipe formulation, nutrition catering personnel training, catering service personnel training, etc.