Dietary nutrition and hygiene

Author: Liu Haoyu
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Nutritional science is the study of the principles of human nutrition and its improvement measures, while food hygiene studies harmful factors that may threaten human health from the perspective of diet and its preventive measures, aiming to improve food hygiene quality and protect consumers' food safety. "Food is the foundation of life, and cleanliness is the foundation of food," nutrition and hygiene are the most important attributes of food. Integrating nutritional knowledge and hygiene knowledge with the development and progress of the catering industry. This book is written with the aim of being practical and easy to understand, closely the characteristics of the catering industry. It can serve as a teaching material for vocational students in tourism, cooking, and food-related fields, as well as a reference book for students in other related fields. This book is one of the series textbooks for higher vocational education (two-year program), covering basic knowledge of nutrition and hygiene and their specific applications in catering management and cooking. Chapter 1 discusses the functions of essential nutrients required by the human body and the human body's digestion and absorption of nutrients; Chapter 2 explains the nutritional characteristics of different physiological periods, the measurement of group nutritional needs, and introduces the principles and methods of dietary design for catering enterprises and centralized catering departments; Chapter 3 studies the changes in nutritional components during cooking and how to choose the correct cooking methods to process food reasonably and prevent the loss of nutritional components; Chapter 4 introduces the hygiene of food raw materials and food containers and their selection methods; Chapter 5, from a practical perspective, introduces the basic knowledge of food poisoning and its prevention and first-aid measures. Small readings are interspersed throughout each chapter to supplement difficult and important knowledge points or provide examples of related issues. At the end of each chapter, there are "readings" that link to relevant content in this discipline, helping students understand the policies and development of this discipline.