catering nutritionist, mainly engaged in catering-related nutrition work, such as nutrition catering scheme, development of nutrition recipes, training of nutrition catering staff, and training of catering service personnel.

Some people sum up China's food culture into three words: nourishment, taste and harmony. Raising is nutrition; Taste is taste; Harmony is the communication of interpersonal relationships.

To eat nutritious food, it requires the work of a nutritionist. Speaking of nutritionists, some people scoff: who can't cook? Who does not understand "nutrition"? Isn't it just eating more vegetables and less meat? This is a misunderstanding of dietitian's work by many people at present. In fact, a qualified professional catering nutritionist is a combination of "nutritionist, doctor and chef". Professional catering nutritionists study nutrition collocation, nutrition complementarity and nutrition balance. According to different people's age, height, weight and physical strength, calculate how many kilocalories are needed a day. Although many people know that they should eat more vegetables and less meat, it is still far from the nutritional requirements. The main job of professional catering nutritionists is to study the relationship between nutrients in food (such as vitamins and protein) and human functional needs, that is, to guide people to "eat what, how and how much".

At present, there are 411,111 professional dietitians in Japan, with 1 for every 331 people, while there are less than 4,111 dietitians in China, with 1 for every 311,111 people. Most of them are distributed in hospitals and other institutions, serving special people, and few of them are for the general public. The focus of dietitians abroad is in the field of public nutrition, and medical nutrition is only one of them. Not long ago, the Ministry of Health revealed that all collective feeding units should be equipped with nutritionists in the future, and the management system and requirements for nutritionists are being drafted. Professor Liu Qipei from the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Fudan University therefore suggested that hotels should also be equipped with full-time nutritionists.

The survey shows that Japanese teenagers at the peak of growth and development are 3 cm taller than their peers in China. This is inseparable from Japan's great emphasis on nutrition. According to Japanese law, any canteen that can accommodate 111 people must be equipped with at least 1 nutritionists. Therefore, nutritionists in Japan are widely distributed in hospitals, schools, canteens, hotels, food processing enterprises and government departments. According to the standard of 1 nutritionists for every 331 people in Japan, China's population of 1.3 billion needs about 4 million professional catering nutritionists.

There is a shortage of qualified professional catering dietitians in China. With the cancellation of medical nutrition specialty in professional colleges, there are fewer and fewer medical dietitians from regular classes, let alone professional catering dietitians. At present, among colleges and universities in China, only Sun Yat-sen University and Sichuan University have nutrition majors. Because of the large demand, the employment prospects of graduates are quite good. There are no more than 31 graduates majoring in nutrition in Sun Yat-sen University every year, and they are robbed of it as soon as they graduate. Experts suggest that nutritionists don't have to stick to the medical background. Many nutritionists abroad are trained by agricultural colleges and food processing majors.

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