Compared with the food nutrition and testing major and the hotel management major, which one is better?

This major has a three-year academic system, with professional ability training as the main line, and job knowledge and skill requirements as the main basis for curriculum setting. It is oriented to food administration departments, food quality inspection departments, food production enterprises, and food circulation. Cooperate with sales companies, hospitals, schools, etc. to cultivate senior practical technical talents with comprehensive qualities, strong comprehensive abilities, and obtain vocational skill certificates related to food majors.

After systematic study, students can engage in food production, especially the marketing and management of nutritious foods and functional health foods; engage in food science, nutrition, and food culture promotion and application; engage in food nutritional composition analysis As well as food hygiene supervision work; engaged in nutritional dietary guidance, health care work for individuals and groups, and overall banquet design work for large and medium-sized catering events. This major has bright employment prospects.

Main courses: food biochemistry, food microbiology, food analysis, instrumental analysis, food hygiene inspection, food safety, food quality management, food nutrition, food technology, basics of food toxicology, food additives

◇Talent demand analysis

In recent years, my country's social economy has developed rapidly, and people's awareness of food nutrition and safety has been greatly enhanced. The food market access system is being fully promoted by enterprises, and there is an urgent need for food quality and safety. International standards. With the establishment of the food safety system and the formation of correct eating habits, food quality testing and nutrition and health care professionals have become one of the most in-demand professions in the country.

In our country, nutritionist is still an emerging profession. Experts believe that today, as people pay more and more attention to nutrition, the nutritionist industry will become the next sunrise industry. The current gap of nutritionists in our country is astronomical. Yu Xiaodong, director of the National Center for Public Nutrition and Development, said: In terms of scientific nutrition knowledge, there are probably less than 2,000 nutrition talents in China who have received professional training in this area, so it is a joke that China’s nutritionists are more precious than pandas.

It is understood that in Japan, there is one nutritionist for every 400 people. If we follow this ratio and calculate with a population of 1.3 billion, our country will need 3.25 million nutritionists. And this is the current demand for qualified nutritionists.

◇Professional training characteristics

This major currently has basic chemistry laboratory, biochemistry laboratory, microbiology laboratory, sterile room, food inspection and analysis laboratory, and precision instrument room . Experimental instruments and equipment worth millions of yuan can meet the teaching needs of this major. The professional curriculum can keep up with the latest developments in food nutrition and testing development, and focuses on the cultivation of students' comprehensive abilities. Every academic year, students are arranged to go to the internship base to carry out internship activities. In the last semester, students are arranged to enter relevant enterprises and institutions for internships and employing personnel. After the unit evaluation, graduates can be directly employed.

Professional teachers have a graduate degree or above reaching 100, and the "SOD" topic studied by relevant teachers is listed as a scientific and technological research project.

Our school now has a vocational skills appraisal institute with certification qualifications for food nutritionists and food inspectors. Students can obtain food-related professional qualification certificates at school.

◇Introduction to employment of graduates

Graduates from this major can be engaged in the supervision, management and inspection of food quality and food hygiene in industrial and commercial administration, customs, import and export commodity inspection and quarantine and other institutions. Work. Engage in quality control, technical management, product development, business management, etc. in food (including health food) production, processing, and distribution enterprises. You can also engage in quality inspection, procurement, and nutritional dietary guidance in the catering industry, hotels, schools, etc.