School Of Science And HealthFood Product Development PracticumWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300637.2
Discipline: FOOD PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Skills and knowledge gained from previous units of study in Food Science and Nutrition and Food program such as Experimental Foods, Culinary Studies, Food Science 1 and 2.
Equivalent Units
FS304A - Food Product Development Practicum 3.1
About this Unit
This unit aims to allow students to work in a product development team as in industry. The entire process of product development includes: idea generation; collating market, technical and consumer information; consumer surveying to establishing need/desire for a new product; development processing, testing and evaluation, packaging; promotion and marketing. Students will develop a specialised knowledge of the total product development system with ability to design, conduct and analyse consumer surveys; develop product formulations and recipes with evaluation of sensory properties, nutritional composition and other functional attributes; design, organise and analyse sensory/acceptance/ performance during the development of the product.
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