Food Scientist
- Perfect for those passionate about food safety and innovation in the culinary world.
- Ensure food quality and safety, impacting health and nutrition globally.
- Discover new food sources and enhance food processing techniques.
💰 Earn $70K-$104K
📚 Bachelor Degree
Overview
Use chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods; analyze food content to determine levels of vitamins, fat, sugar, and protein; discover new food sources; research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful; and apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, store, and distribute food.Scoop
Excellent (Increasing by 5% or more)
Day-to-Day
- Inspect food processing areas to ensure compliance with government regulations and standards for sanitation, safety, quality, and waste management.
- Check raw ingredients for maturity or stability for processing, and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional value.
- Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods, using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and other sciences.
- Test new products for flavor, texture, color, nutritional content, and adherence to government and industry standards.
- Stay up to date on new regulations and current events regarding food science by reviewing scientific literature.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Thinking and problem solving
- Using data or completing tasks
- Working with my hands
You are skilled in 💫
- Active Listening
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
- Science
- Speaking
- Writing
You value 🙏
- Accomplishing things
- Having support
- Receiving recognition
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