Food Science I (THEORY)

Paper Code: 
FSQ – 131
Credits: 
02
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students:

  • To understand the definition, concepts and functions of food and nutrition.
  • To learn structure, composition and nutritional contribution of various food products.
  • To understand the effect of processing on food products.
12.00
Unit I: 
Functions of Food

Basic food groups

  • Balanced diets.
  • Dietary guidelines for Indians.

Food preparation

Different methods of cooking

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Carbohydrate cookery and types of carbohydrate in foods
  • Cereal and cereal cookery: Structure, Composition, Process done before cooking - milling, polishing, parboiling, flaking, parching, roasting, fermentation, malting.
  • Starch: Structure, Composition, properties- Dextrinization, Gelatinisation, gel formation
  • Pectin and Pectic substances their role in preparation of jams and jelly.

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Sugar
Sugar: Different forms of sugar- Table sugar, Honey, Jaggery, Bura,  Preparations      of Sugar Syrup, Properties- Caramelisation, Inversion, Crystallization, functions in cooking.
 Fats and Oils.Structure, composition, effect of heat and storage temperature, hydrogenation process, refining process (concept), rancidity of fats.

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Milk and Milk Products

Composition, nutritive value, various types of processed milk, home care of milk, curd formation, cheese preparation, effect of cooking, grading of milk.

Egg

Structure, composition, nutritive value, effects of cooking, functions of eggs in cookery, quality testing.

 

Unit V: 
Meat, fish, poultry & Legumes and Pulses.

Meat, fish, poultry

Structure, composition, nutritive value, ripening, factors affecting tenderness of meat, effects of cooking.

Legumes and Pulses.

Composition, nutritive value, methods of cooking-soaking, germination fermentation.

 Nuts and Oils seeds

Composition, nutritive value.

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Bennion, M. Introductory Foods. Eight edition. Macmillan Publishing Company, New York. 1985.
  2. Drummond K.E and Brefere L.M. Nutrition for foodservice and Culinary Professionals.John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Fourth Edition. 2011
  3. Winton &Winton.Milk and Milk Products.Agro Botanical Publishers. 1998.
  4. Bogstrom, G. Principles of Food Science, Vol I and II, TheMacmillian Co., New York, 1968.
  5. Charly, H. Food Science. John Wiley and Sons Inc, New York, Second edition 1970
  6. Lowe, B. Experimental Cookery. John Wiley and Sons Inc, New York.
  7. Manay, N.S. and Shadaksharaswamy M. Food Facts and Principles.Second edition, New Age International Publisher, New Delhi 2001.
  8. Meyer. L.H. Food Chemistry, CBS Publishers and Distribution, Delhi, 1987.

 

References: 
  1. Srilakshmi.B. Food Science.New - Age International (P) Ltd. Publishers, New Delhi, 1997.
  2. Swaminathan M. Food Science Chemistry and Experimental foods, The Bangalore Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd., Mysore, Banaglore 1990.
  3. Potter, N.N. Food Science, 3rd Ed CBS Publishers and Distributors. Delhi, 1987
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