Food Science and Nutrition

Do you know that the food we eat today plays a major role in our future health as well as our children’s and grandchildren’s? What types of food are good for maintaining weight? Are those foods safe, nutritious and sustainable? The answers to those questions require complex and extensive research in various interfaces of human physiology and certainly the science of food and nutrition.

At i3L, the discussions on food, nutrition and human health intertwine and are delivered from the molecular level up to population and global levels; from the chemistry, microbiology, safety, and processing aspects of food up to its functionality on gene and cell levels; its use for human digestion and metabolism, its effects on human health at individual and population levels, as well as its impact on the on society and the environment.