Food Nutrition

Food nutritionists usually look at the science, ingredients, policy, legislation and regulations involved in the consumption or marketing of a food item. Their roles will vary between nutrition training or education, customer service, health promotion and assessing, setting, implementing and communicating nutritional standards and information for foods in commercial and food service settings, marketing, product development, regulatory support and research/science. Their role may also include community development/health improvement as well as commissioning of services. Food Nutritionists will typically work in nutrition/food education/academia as a nutrition/food researcher, for the food manufacturing industry (producing anything from baby foods to food supplements), the foodservice industry (from wholesalers to catering companies), food retailers (major supermarkets or pharmacy chains), public relations companies or trade/ industry organisations.