Diploma: Consumer Science in Food and Nutrition at Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Consumers are becoming more aware of the relationship between lifestyle choices and health. The food industry, comprising the manufacturing and retail sectors, are both addressing consumer concerns regarding the need for good quality, healthy and safe food. Access to healthy and safe food is also high on the national agenda, leading to a need for qualified graduates with a sound knowledge of food and nutrition. Offering type listed: FULLTIME - DISTRICT 6 CAMPUS.

Faculty: Faculty of Applied Sciences  |  Department: Biotechnology and Consumer Sciences  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

What you will study

Subjects listed on the programme page include Applied Sciences: Introduction; Food Communication; Food Production and Service Operations 1; Food: Science and Practice 1; Nutrition 1; Consumer Retailing.

Career pathways

This programme offers a wide range of career destinations in the food and retail industries for students who are interested in working with food and people. Former students are working in test kitchens: formulating and developing recipes for industrial food production; training employees in retail and food manufacturing, implementing quality control systems, advising consumers on food and nutrition products, managing the preparation and production of convenience food products, supervising food retail departments and managing food service facilities. Students also have the background to become entrepreneurs as these skills are developed by combining business subjects with food and nutrition knowledge and culinary skills.

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