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Food for Kids: A Parents' Guide
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 7 hours estimated
It can be hard for parents to work out how much and what type of food to feed their children. Which parenting strategies can help kids to enjoy vegetables, healthy snacks and new foods? Join us in Food for Kids: A Parents' Guide as we answer these tricky...
Offered through edX | and created by NewcastleX | Taught by Clare E. Collins, Tracy Burrows
Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics: An Introduction to One Health Policy
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 28 hours estimated
Welcome to "Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics
Offered through Coursera | and created by Princeton University | Taught by Laura Kahn
The Science of Cooking
A MicroMasters from edXCost $456 · . Contains 3 courses · . Course Total length: 138 hours estimated
Let’s play with food! Through the professional certificate in the Science of Cooking, you will not only examine scientific concepts that are essential for everyday cooking, but you will also learn how biology, chemistry, and physics change food flavor, texture,...
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University, HarvardX | Taught by Michael Brenner, Pia Sörensen, David Weitz and others
Transformation of the Global Food System
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 28 hours estimated
The UN predicts we will be 9-10 billion people on Earth in 2050. Providing so many people with nutritious foods is a massive challenge and one that cannot be met by simply upscaling current practices regarding food production and consumption. Providing humanity...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Copenhagen | Taught by Katherine Richardson
An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health
Rated 4.5★ stars based on | 25 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 0 hours estimated
A food system encompasses the activities, people and resources involved in getting food from field to plate. Along the way, it intersects with aspects of public health, equity and the environment. In this course, we will provide a brief introduction to the U.S....
Offered through Coursera | and created by Johns Hopkins University | Taught by Keeve Nachman, PhD, MHS, Robert S. Lawrence, MD, Pamela Rhubart Berg
Food as Medicine
Rated 4.4★ stars based on | 51 ratings · . Cost $84 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course will have broad general interest appeal to everyone interested in food, nutrition and health....
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by Monash University | Taught by Helen Truby, Melissa Adamski
Understanding Food Labels and Portion Sizes
Nutrition Education for the ConsumerCost $49 · . Course Length: 3 hours estimated
All of us have struggled to decipher the long list of ingredients and recommendations on our food labels. This course provides a deeper understanding of labeling standards and methods for estimating food portions essential for informed decision-making and healthy...
Offered through Coursera | and created by National Academy of Sports Medicine | Taught by NASM Faculty
The Science and Politics of the GMO
Rated 4.0★ stars based on | 1 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 20 hours estimated
What exactly are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and why do scientists develop them? Studying the science of GMOs helps us understand biotechnology’s potential role in addressing challenges in agriculture. In this introductory Food and Nutrition course, you...
Offered through edX | and created by Cornell University, CornellX | Taught by Sarah Evanega, Ronald Herring, David Just and others
Improving Food Production with Agricultural Technology and Plant Biotechnology
Cost $74 · . Course Length: 9 hours estimated
Week One: Plant biotechnology Week Two: Agricultural technology Week Three
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Cambridge, European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), EIT Food | Taught by Emma G, Thomas Engel, Cristobal Uauy and others
The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health
Rated 4.4★ stars based on | 96 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 27 hours estimated
The New Nordic Diet is a new food culture developed in 2009-13 with key emphasis on gastronomy, health, and environment. Major research in its effect on acceptability, behaviour and learning skills, and disease prevention have been conducted by the OPUS centre at...
Offered through Coursera | and created by University of Copenhagen | Taught by Dr Arne Astrup, MD, DMSc.
Advanced gastrointestinal physiology
Health and medicine. Course Length: 0 hours estimated
Do you live to eat, or eat to live? Either way, no one can deny the importance of food and water in our everyday lives. The energy from food is carefully extracted through ingestion, digestion, and absorption, and requires one long tube with some organs attached....
Offered through Khan Academy
Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes
The Science of CookingCost $219 · . Course Length: 42 hours estimated
What’s living in your food? Many of the foods that we consume daily owe their distinct characteristics and flavors to microbes, specifically through a biochemical process of fermentation (using bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms to produce diverse foods)....
Offered through edX | and created by Harvard University | Taught by Pia Sörensen, Roberto Kolter
Food for Thought
Rated 4.9★ stars based on | 22 ratings · . Cost $49 · . Course Length: 50 hours estimated
Eating well and understanding the nuances of food has become a complicated and often confusing experience. Virtually every day brings news about some “miracle food” that we should be consuming or some "poison" we should be avoiding. One day it's tomatoes to...
Offered through edX | and created by McGillX, McGill | Taught by Ariel Fenster, David N. Harpp, Joe Schwarcz and others
Unleash Your Potential: Sustainable Futures
Cost $44 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is aimed at anyone interested in sustainability in a broad sense, but may be of particular...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Bristol | Taught by Aisling Tierney, Chris Preist, Eleni Michalopoulou and others
Grand Challenges: Food for Thought
Cost $59 · . Course Length: 12 hours estimated
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more No previous experience or qualifications are required. The content will complement interests in science,...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by Eden Project, University of Exeter | Taught by Christopher Laing, Lydia Peddle
Edible Insects
Cost $49 · . Course Length: 33 hours estimated
This English language course covers the science and sociology of insects as food and feed. Increasing media, investment, and public policy attention has been given over the years to the role insects may play in the future of food. Can eating insects really save...
Offered through Coursera | and created by National Taiwan University | Taught by Matan Shelomi
Drying and Encapsulation of Food Ingredients in Powder Form
Cost $464 · . Course Length: 20 hours estimated
Educators will facilitate from 18 Feb 2018-17 March 2019 This course is for those working in food production, this includes food scientists and technologists, chemists, and food product developers.Topics CoveredFundamentals of heat and mass transfer Drying...
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Hohenheim, ETH Zurich, EIT Food | Taught by Reinhard Kohlus, Nora Ruprecht, Jakob Fröhlich and others
Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition
Food, Nutrition and HealthRated 4.0★ stars based on | 13 ratings · . Cost $199 · . Course Length: 72 hours estimated
Food plays a central role in our society but few people actually understand what it does to our bodies. Learn more about nutrition and how our diet profoundly impacts our current and future health. This introductory nutrition course addresses the relationship...
Offered through edX | and created by Wageningen University & Research, WageningenX | Taught by Sander Kersten
The Future of Farming: Exploring Climate Smart Agriculture
Cost $74 · . Course Length: 9 hours estimated
Week 1: Week 2: Week 3
Offered through FutureLearn | and created by University of Reading | Taught by Marie Dittmann, Yen Tu, Martin Lukac
Sustainable Agribusiness
A MicroMasters from edXCost $1 · . Contains 7 courses · . Course Total length: 168 hours estimated
The Sustainable Agriculture MicroMasters program provides you the knowledge to create a healthy environment, economic profitability, and social and economic equity. Its fundamental purpose is to help you meet current societal needs without compromising the ability...
Offered through edX | and created by DoaneX, Doane University, UTAustinX | Taught by Diane Dunlop, Tasha Richard, Debora Sepich and others