Food Science and Technology - A Smorgasbord of Science

What is food science?

Certainly it is NOT simply home economics or 'cooking'!

Food Science draws on the spectrum of biological and physical sciences, applies them to one of the essentials of life - FOOD, and prepares students for a career in one of Australia's largest and most stable industries. After all, everybody has to EAT!

Food science, not only in the academic, but in the real world sense, relies on mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, engineering, processing, nutrition, biotechnology, psychology, marketing, commerce, and management. Because, as an area of study, it incoprporates so many different disciplines and through those, ways of thinking, it prepares you for a career not only in the food industry, but in many areas that you probably wouldn't even think of.

"It's a bridge between a variety of applied sciences and the commercial world"
Graham Fleet, The Australian, November 6, 1999.

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