Module CodeCourse Term

19349034

Course Subject Name

Food Science

Course Tutor

Shigeki Furuya

Credit2Schools

School of Agriculture

Taught Year

The 3rd yearCampus

Ito campus

Subject Area

LectureCourse Subject Classification Specialized Subjects

Spring
The 6th Semester
Taught Day

WED-1
Wednesday, 1st period (8:40-10:10)

Course Requirements
Course Requirement(Pre-requisite)
Course Outline
Students learn basic knowledge of chemistry and function of various food components to utilize them for our health.
Through laerning on health-supporting effect of various food components, students can obtain basic knowledge on production of health-supporting foods.

key words
Food components, health-supporting effect, functioal food, mechanism
Study Objectives (General)
This course is designed to give various information on the function of food components to design and utilze healthsupporting foods.
Study Objectives (Specific) The course aims to achieve the following:
A. Students can gain general information on food and health.
B. Student can gain information on food componens with health supporting effect.
C. Students can gain information on chemical characteristics of food components
D. Students can learn on the health-supporting mechanism of food components.
F. Students can obtain information on design of health-supporting foods.
Course Plan
1. Functional food (Shigeki Furuya). Teach on health-supporting ability of foodstuffs, fuctional foods, health-suppoting foods etc.
2. Monosaccharides (Kiichiro Teruya). Teach on function of glucose, glycolysis and TCA cycle, health-suppoting activity of sugar alcohols etc.
3. Oligosaccharides (Kiichiro Teruya). Teach on sugar and cavity, lactose intolerance, health-supporting effect of oligosaccharides etc.
4. Polysaccharides (Shigeki Furuya). Teach on digestible polysaccharides, health-supporting effect of dietary fibers etc.
5. Major amino acids (Shigeki Furuya). Teach on essential amino acids, nonessential amino acids, nutritive value of proteins etc.
6. Minor amino acids (Shigeki Furuya). Teach on GABA, aliine, ornithine, thyroxin, teanine, DOPA etc.
7. Peptide 1 (Toshiro Matsui, Mitsuru Tanaka). Teach on health-supporting effect of peptides, blood pressure reducing peptides etc.
8. Peptide 2 (Toshiro Matsui, Mitsuru Tanaka). Teach on health-supporting effect of proteins, allergy etc.
9. Fatty acids (Masao Sato). Teach on health-supporting effect of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, synthessis and metabolism of fatty acids etc.
10. Glyceride lipids (Bungo Shirouchi). Teach on structure, function, digestion and absorption of glyceride lipids etc.
11. Steroids (Masao Sato). Teach on cholesterol intake and metabolism in relation to our health.
12. Antioxidants (Hirofumi Tachibana). Teach on oxidation, antioxidants, health-supporting effect of antioxidants etc.
13. Vitamins (Hirofumi Tachibana). Teach on health-supporting effect of water-soluble and -insoluble vitamins.
14. Major Minerals (Yoshinori Katakura). Teach on iron, calcium and phophorus, sodium and pottasium etc.
15. Minor Minerals (Yoshinori Katakura). Teach on sulfur, zinc, copper, cobalt, iodine, manganese, selenium, fluorine etc.

Course Approaches
Textbooks
Reference Books

Study consultation(office hour)

Exams/Results
Evaluation MethodOthers

1. Attendance of lecture (100%).