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Course code: ZJS20085f15
Semester: 2015/2016 winter
Name: : Foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses
Major: Food Quality Management and Analysis
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Karolina Łoźna
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Knowledge: Student defines the basic concepts of foods for particular nutritional uses. Student knows the human body's need for nutrients, vitamins and minerals in live cycle, knows consequences of their deficiency and excess level in the body. Student characterizes the different groups of foods for particular nutritional uses. Student can discuss advantages and disadvantages of their use. Student has knowledge about legislation of these products. Student knows the procedure for the marketing, labeling and their withdrawal from the market. Skills: Student is able to assess the intake of macronutrients, vitamins and minerals for different population groups. Student is able to use in a proper way the foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses. Students can discuss needs of its entering to the market.

Competences: Students is interested in the functioning of the human body, the need for vitamins and minerals, their role in the body, and the effects of over-and under-consumption.

Prerequisites: Food Chemistry

Course content: Types, rules of use, mechanisms of action, indications and contraindications, side effects of foods for particular nutritional uses, the procedures of marketing, labeling and withdrawal from the market.

Recommended literature: 1. Jarosz M.: Suplementy diety a zdrowie, Wydawnictwo Lekarskie PZWL , 2008 2. Gawęcki J. (red.): Żywienie człowieka. Podstawy nauki o żywieniu, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa, 2005 3. Grzymisławski M., Gawęcki J. (red.): Żywienie człowieka zdrowego i chorego, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa, 2006 4. Jarosz M., Bułhak-Jachymczyk B.: Normy żywienia człowieka. Podstawy prewencji otyłości i chorób niezakaźnych, Wyd. Lek. PZWL, Warszawa, 2008 5. Inne materiały edukacyjne rozdawane studentom podczas wykładów i ćwiczeń.

Assessment methods: Written examination.

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