Applications in Food Sciences

MODULE PROGRAM
Unit of pediatric nutrition: breastfeeding and formula feeding, weaning and dietary guidelines, type I diabetes, obesity, eating behaviour disorders, nutritional supplements and probiotics, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel diseases.

Unit of parasitology: Concepts of general parasitology with focus on food-borne parasitosis. PLATYHELMINTHES, Class CESTODA, Order Cyclophyllidea (Taenia solium, Taenia saginata), Order Pseudophyllidea (Diphyllobothrium spp.);PLATYHELMINTHES, Class CESTODA Order Cyclophyllidea (Echinococcus spp.); NEMATODES: Order TRICHOCEPHALIDA (Trichinella spp.), Order ASCARIDIDA (Anisakidae) APICOMPLEXA (Toxoplasma sp.).

Unit of chemistry: instrumental food analysis; chromatography, mass spectrometry, UV, MIR, NIR and NMR spectroscopy. Main techniques of isolation and purification of organic compounds from fresh foods: precipitation, filtration, extraction, column and TLC chromatography. Practical experiments will be performed by the Students in the lab.

LECTURE NOTES
- lecture slides.
- G. V. Zuccotti, Manuale di Pediatria. La Pratica Clinica, 2a Edizione, Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna, 2016.
- O. Brandonisio, F. Bruschi, C. Genchi, E. Pozio, De Carneri Parassitologia medica e diagnostica parassitologica, 14a Ed.,Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 2012.
- G. Molteni, Introduzione all'analisi strumentale degli alimenti, II Ed., Aracne editrice, Roma, 2013.

REQUIREMENTS AND FINAL TEST
Requirements: knowledge of spoken Italian language in order to attend the lectures. Good knowledge of structural and functional basis of nutrition, anatomy, zoology, biochemistry of nutrition, general chemistry, organic chemistry, food chemistry.
Final test: written (multiple answer test). Answers can be provided in English, if wished. Allowed time is 1 hour per module. Intermediate tests are recommended. Chemistry module: a lab. report should be provident by the student, plus a report onto an analytical topic proposed by the teacher.

SUBJECTS TO BE KNOWN
Food chemistry.

TEACHING METHOD
Traditional lecture, chemistry lab.
Attendance: lectures are strongly recommended, the chemistry lab. is compulsory.

MODULE LANGUAGE
Italian.

INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE COURSE PROGRAM
Lecture slides are available onto the "Ariel" website.

WEB page
http://gmolteniasa.ariel.ctu.unimi.it