BSc Food Technology

In view of an increasing demand and interest in the field of food technology, the Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi, has started a degree course in Food Technology from this session. The Institute of Home Economics, DU is NAAC grade 'A' accredited. The course will be undertaken by the Department of Food & Nutrition, which is the oldest and largest Department of the college. The Department was earlier offering Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (BTech) (FYUP) in Food Technology. 

The course, BSc Honours in Food Technology, is an exhaustive one covering every aspect of food technology — food processing, food science and chemistry of food, food safety, and microbiological aspects of food, food engineering and food packaging. Along with intensive classroom teaching and laboratory-based practical classes; the course also aims to provide hands-on-experience to the students through educational tours, seminars, projects and industrial trainings. The college has well-equipped food technology laboratories with instruments like hot air oven, dehydrator, soxhlet apparatus for fat extraction, kjheldal apparatus, automatic digester, deep freezer, muffle furnace, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, autoclave, incubator, centrifuge, etc. — TNS