Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Today’s nutrition and health builds a brighter tomorrow.
There are growing expectations regarding research on food and health that underpins high-quality lifestyles full of health and vigor. The Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences enables students to acquire comprehensive knowledge regarding food safety and its functions, the human body and nutrition, and to solve these problems in the real world.
Departments
- Department of Food and Life Sciences (Food Science Course)
- The Food Science Course, in the Department of Food and Life Sciences, aims to produce experts that can contribute to people’s health and food safety in the globalizing food field, adopting scientific perspectives toward food, based on knowledge and techniques related to cutting-edge biotechnology. Students can learn basic bioscience regardless of whether their focus is in the humanities or sciences.
- Department of Food and Life Sciences (Sports and Food Function Course)
- Students in the Sports and Food Function Course, in the Department of Food and Life Sciences, aim to become experts in exercise and nutrition so as to meet current social needs through knowledge of nutrition, considering the respective exercise and nutrition required by persons of different ages, genders and lifestyles. We aim to foster human resources that can meet a wide range of public health needs by learning comprehensive roles and relationships among health, food functions, and sports.
- Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences
- In the 35th National Examination for Registered Dietitians held in February 2021, 93 applicants all took the test and 85 passed. (rate of 91.4%)
- Students in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences learn relationships between people’s health and food based on knowledge of biosciences. We aim to cultivate specialists, including managerial dieticians who support dietary lifestyles, in various fields regarding food and nutrition. Also, we provide students with the mentality and ability to learn and explore by themselves, with the broad perspective and range of learning opportunities unique to a comprehensive university.
Learning Columns
The Learning Columns present articles and videos that describe the activities of Toyo University students and departments.
Thinking About the Food Environment, -What We Can Do to Reduce Food Loss-
Jun Sato, Professor (Department of Food and Life Sciences / Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences)
Main Research Theme: Food Microbiology, Growth Behavior and Control of Bacteria Measurement Methods for Bacteria
Understanding the Mysterious Mechanisms of Bacterial Spores
Makoto Fujisawa, Associate Professor (Department of Nutritional and Health Sciences / Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences)
Research Field: Biological science, Functional biochemistry
Washoku for the Next Generation
Masako Ota, Associate Professor (Department of Nutritional and Health Sciences / Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences)
Research Field: Sports Nutrition, Characteristics of Washoku, Functional Displays of Food, Supplements
What Sugar is All About -The Third Chain of Life-
Nobumitsu Miyanishi, Professor (Department of Food Life Sciences / Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences)
Research Field: Structural-Functional Analysis of Sugar Chains and Carbohydrate-Related Molecules
How the Blood Flows through the Body During Exercise – The Function of the Blood Vessel –
Anna Oue, Associate Professor (Department of Food and Life Sciences / Faculty of Food and Nutritional Sciences)
Research Field: Response of venous and arterial outflow under exercise or heat