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Course code: NTSS20280f16
Semester: 2016/2017 summer
Name: Functional Food and Nutraceutical Bioactive Ingredients
Major: Food Technology and Nutrition
Study Type: second cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 1
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 0 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. inż. Anna Sokół-Łętowska
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course in English will be available if a minimum of 6 students sign up for a group. If less than 6 students sign up for the group, the course will be available in Polish with the possibility of individual support in English.

Learning outcomes: Knowledge: After finishing this course, student knows biologically active compounds use in functional foods and nutraceuticals production. Student knows the properties of these compounds and their effects on the body and knows nutraceuticals and functional foods commercially available. Skills: The student can select the bioactive compounds found in functional food and nutraceuticals and choose the optimal method of analysis. Student is able to characterize differences among functional food, nutraceuticals and traditional food.

Competences: Student demonstrated understanding necessity of eating foods with a high content of bioactive compounds. Recognizes the importance of biologically active compounds found in functional foods and nutraceuticals for the body.

Prerequisites: Biochemistry, general food technology, technologies of specialization

Course content: The objective of the course is to provide knowledge about functional foods and nutraceuticals (classification and definition) and about bioactive components found in functional foods and nutraceuticals. Information about processing technology of functional food and nutraceutical production will be provide.

Recommended literature: 1. Świderski F., Żywność wygodna i żywność funkcjonalna, WNT, Warszawa 1999; 2. Fiedurek J. Rola żywności i żywienia w profilaktyce i terapii chorób człowieka. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin 2007; 3. Sikorski Z.E., Skład, przemiany i właściwości żywności, WNT, Warszawa 2000; 4. Gibson G.W., Williams C.M. Functional foods. Concept to product. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA, 2000.

Assessment methods: Written exam

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