Faculty of Nutrition Sciences
Department of Agricultural Chemistry
The Department of Human Nutrition was established in 1998, with the mission to impart quality education to students to undertake research in promoting health and nutrition of the population. It also aims to tackle the nutrition problems of the country through problem oriented research and nutritional programme. The scope of the Department includes promoting food security by increasing mass awareness through nutrition education and preventing malnutrition by conducting applied research activities. Though quality education, the Department is producing skilled graduates who play a vital role in reducing nutritional problems at the level of community and clinical settings. In addition, the department has been offering courses and research methodologies related to overall health improvement in malnutrition, macro-micro nutrient deficiency maternal, child, infant mortality, food security pre-and post surgery nutrition both in clinic and hospital etc. leading to B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc (Hons) degrees. This department is also offering ad advanced courses and research guidance to Ph.D scholars.
In the past 35-years, the department has produced more that 200 well trained graduates, who have been serving various organizations at provincial, national and international levels. Since its inception, the Department has produced a number of gold medalist and other academi9c distinction holders. The department is also collaborating with other national and international research organizations to meet the requirements of the graduate students specially Ph.D students. Besides teaching, the department is also helping the health department KPK, Federal Health Ministry, Nutritional planning Cell Islamabad, UNICEF, WHO, FAO and different NGOs. The major emphasis of this department is bringing improvement in overall health of the population. The Department has highly qualified and experienced faculty, well equipped laboratory. The main focus of this institute is to produce nutrition qualified people to help the general masses and industry to improve the nutritional status of community and production of quality food.
Department of Food Science and Technology
Food Science & Technology is the organized knowledge of applied courses covering subjects such as composition of food, the importance of food nutrients to human health, food analytical chemistry, sensory & microbiological techniques, principles of food preservation, food preparation & processing, food engineering, packaging & storage, food microbiology (food spoilage and their prevention techniques), quality control tests, safety & legislation management programme for food industries. This Department has three major laboratories and one processing hall for under-graduate and post graduate practical and research, well equipped with the latest models of equipments, classical apparatus and utensils (for physical, chemical, sensory, microbial analysis, processing of fruits & vegetables, meat and poultry etc.). Major areas of research are: post-harvest handling of fruits & vegetables, determination and elimination of anti-nutrients of leguminous and cereals products food additives and food components interaction, their determination, and inhibitions techniques, improvements in storage stability of food products with applications of individual or combined preservation techniques, packaging influence on the stability of food nutrients, development of new preserved food products by heating, low temperature canning, drying, radiation and food additives. Outreach activities include advisory services in the field of food science to the food producer, food processors, extension workers, and scientists.
Department of Human Nutrition
The Department of Human Nutrition was established in 1985 with the mission to impart quality education to students and to undertake research in promoting health and nutrition of the population. It also aims to tackle the nutrition problems of the country through problem oriented research and nutritional programme. The scope of the department includes promoting food security by increasing mass awareness through nutrition education and preventing malnutrition by conducting applied research activities. Through quality education, the Department is producing skilled graduates who play a vital role in reducing nutritional problems at the level of community and clinical settings.
The Department has well-equipped laboratory facilities, capable of undertaking biochemical analysis of food, blood and urine samples for micro and macronutrients. Currently the Department has received a number of state of the art equipment for carrying out research activities of the Department. The Department has strong research collaboration with national and international institutions. There is a very good stock of nutrition books, journals, and periodicals in the Central Library. The Department has got national and international recognition where both students and faculty enjoy the benefits of mutual collaboration.
It has well-qualified and trained faculty. Most of the teaching staff have doctoral degrees from abroad and are fully expert in specialized areas. The Department has sufficient enrollment of students in master and doctoral degrees. Similarly the department has established good working relationships with public and private hospitals of the country where students get their practical training through a 12-week internship program.
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