Introduction to Food Technology I

Base Knowledge

Teaching Methodologies

Lecture followed by practice of dairy technologies and horticultural technology and analyzes for quality control.

Learning Results

Overall objective: student motivation for food technology and quick perception of what this area of knowledge and application.
Specific Objectives:
o1. Distinguishes milk from different animal species and the type of heat treatment applied to milk;
o2. Describes the different stages in the manufacture of cheese, yogurt and butter;
o3. Measures and expresses in various forms, concentrations of soluble solids, salt and acidity of food products derived from fruit and vegetables using techniques and equipments appropriately;
o4. Describes the different stages in the manufacture of sweets, fruit confits and nectars.

Program

c1. Dairy technology: production of milk, cheese, butter and yogurt.
c2. Horticultural Technology: candy production, fruit confits, drying, nectars.

Grading Methods

Avaliação contínua
  • - Módulo de lacticínios: o1, o2, 70% teste escrito e 30% trabalho de grupo. - 50.0%
  • - Módulo de Hortofrutícolas : o3, o4, 100% teste escrito - 50.0%
Avaliação por exame
  • - Exame escrito - 100.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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ALFA LAVAL AB. Dairy Handbook, Dairy and Food Engineering, Lund. Sweeden. (s.d.).

PEREIRA, C. D., BOTELHO, G., RODRIGUES, I., FRANCO, J., ESTEVES, V., Manual de Conservação e Transformação de Produtos de Origem Vegetal, Ministério da Agricultura do Desenvolvimento Rural e das Pescas, República de Angola. (2011).

ALBAGNAC G., VAROQUAUX P., MONTIGAUD J.C. Tecnologies de transformation des fruits, Edition Tec & Doc, Paris, 2002.