LSC1: Senior One Nutrition and Food Technology

Preface

The study of Nutrition and Food Technology enables you to appreciate nutrition and food technology; this study is about how to develop food products, improve food systems and protect the integrity and safety of the food supply chain.

This coursebook is designed to enable you to acquire knowledge, skills, values and attitudes while understanding Nutrition and Food Technology as a subject. It will give you an opportunity to study actively. This includes brainstorming tasks and learning activities which are very much hands-on for your learning experience. It facilitates learning and acquisition of knowledge and skills necessary to lead into various professions in nutrition and food technology.

There are learning activities in this book throughout the chapters of study to engage you as you take responsibility of your learning. The activities will actively enable you to acquire knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that you need to become a nutrition and food technology professional. These activities will help you to develop critical thinking skills to solve problems, be creative, communicate effectively, use available information and communication technologies in nutrition and food technology. The activities will enable you to acquire life skills of cooperation, team work, tolerance and much more.

The conversations and discussions you will involve in, will shape your ideas so that you can contribute to the knowledge you will find in this book to understand and develop new food products. You are encouraged to actively participate in group or pair work since these are moments for you to learn from each other as you share experiences.