The Teaching Laboratory is used for foods and food chemistry classes, and consists of seven student lab work station bays, which allow for up to 28 students to work simultaneously, and a central demonstration bay. Each bay is fully equiped and is vented with a stainless steel fume hood. Students can prepare a variety of foods and demonstrate many principles of food chemistry using the laboratory facility. Subtle differences in materials and methods are detectable through measurements made using electronic balances, teflon-coated thermometers, microscopes, pH meters, refractometers, and consistometers. Objective methods for evaluating food quality are regularly employed.
Students can view graphical data generated by lab test equipment using a wide-screen color monitor.
Other laboratories in the building, including the exercise physiology labs, contain unique equipment that is shared in a collaborative research agreement throughout the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. This arrangements helps make the Applied Health Science Nutrition Science Laboratories an outstanding research facility.