NUTRITION & FOOD TECHNOLOGY. In this subject, you will acquire skills that will enable you to fight the challenges of rampant malnutrition in the
community.
You will appreciate the importance of living healthily by ensuring healthy diets and maintaining a high standard of personal, food, and kitchen hygiene.
The book also provides you with an opportunity as a learner of Nutrition and Food Technology to acquire skills in food processing and preservation.
In a country where there is plenty of fresh food, it is unfortunate that there is so much waste at certain periods when there is plenty and yet so much lack during periods of scarcity when the food is out of season.
Food technological skills will therefore enable you to preserve food when it is in plenty and to
make it available when it is out of season
With these, you can be sure of acquiring employable skills to earn a living.
The topics covered throughout Senior One are Introduction to Nutrition and Food Technology,
kitchen equipment, safety in the home, proteins, carbohydrates, mineral salts, and vegetable
processing.
Nutrition and Food Technology are related to other subjects like Agriculture which provides the basis of food; Biology which brings out the science of food, and Fine Arts which brings out the ar
of food. For example, it uses art to promote eating healthy foods and healthy living.
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