Staatsexamen Food Chemistry at University of Bonn

As a special area of chemistry, food chemistry deals primarily with the characteristics and chemical composition of food products and their ingredients. The main areas of focus in food chemistry are the changes that occur during production, storage, or processing of food products and monitoring their purity and quality.

Duration: 9 semesters (4.5 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught; Staatsexamen  |  Intake: Wintersemester (winter semester)  |  Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

Food products are generally highly complex compound systems of biological origin—in many cases they are parts of plant or animal organisms. As a result, external influences—mechanical processing, heat or radiation–often lead to far-reaching changes in the product’s substance.

Career pathways

Examination and evaluation food products’ composition and the interaction of their ingredients, quality control of food products and articles of daily use, development of new recipes for food products taking food legislation into account, monitoring of sequencing in the food production, refinement of chemical, biochemical, and microbiological analysis methods

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