Provides a science based foundation in human nutrition, covering nutrient biochemistry, metabolism, and evidence-based health promotion across the lifespan.
Category: NUTR 110
Covers the chemical and physical properties of food and how processing and storage affect food quality.Strengths: Organized by food category (dairy, meat, grains), making it easy to use for weekly lectures.
This textbook serves as an introduction to nutrition for undergraduate students and is the OER textbook for the FSHN 185 The Science of Human Nutrition course at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. The book covers basic concepts in human nutrition, key information about essential nutrients, basic nutritional assessment, and nutrition across the lifespan.