What is the primary focus of food technology?

Food technology is an academic discipline dedicated to the healthy preparation of foods. It operates within the broader scope of food science, which studies the chemical, physical, and biological properties of food to ensure safety and quality.

How does food technology relate to other scientific fields?

It is a component of food science and is related to oenology, the science of wine production. It is also classified as an academic discipline and an academic major, falling under the subclass of Q1637030.

What are some external identifiers for food technology?

The discipline is recognized across numerous databases with identifiers such as the MeSH Descriptor D005524, the Dewey Decimal number 664, and the Freebase ID /m/05jkqm. It also holds specific IDs in systems like GND (4034901-9), NDL (033811308), and VIAF (000337558).

What organizations and companies are associated with food technology?

The International Union of Nutritional Sciences, a non-governmental organization devoted to the advancement of nutrition founded in 1948, is related to the field. Upside Foods, an American food technology company founded in 2015, represents the industry application of this discipline.

What are the aliases and international names for food technology?

Common aliases include "food tech." In other languages and knowledge bases, it is referred to as "Levensmiddelentechnologie" (Dutch) and "tecnologia-dels-aliments" (Catalan).

food technology

academic discipline regarding the healthy preparation of foods

Class type of: food science Q1039642

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Instance of: academic discipline, academic major, type of technology^[2]^[3]
Subclass of: food science^[4]
Is the study of: food and drink preparation^[5]
Practiced by: food technologist^[6]

🏷️ Also known as

en food tech en food technology ar تكنولوجيا الأغذية ar تقانة الغذاء cs potravinářská technologie da fødevareteknologi de Lebensmitteltechnologie de Lebensmitteltechnik el Τεχνολογία τροφίμων es tecnología de los alimentos es Licenciatura en Ciencia y Tecnologia de los Alimentos es Grado en Ciencia y Tecnologia de los Alimentos es Grado en Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos es Licenciatura en Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos es tecnologia alimentaria es tecnología alimentaria es Tecnologia de Alimentos es Tecnología de Alimentos es Tecnologia de los alimentos fa تکنولوژی غذا

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GND ID: 4034901-9
OpenAlex ID: C57123350
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ANZSRC 2020 FoR ID: 300607
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID: scot/2510
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 45960
Basisklassifikation: 58.34
Dewey Decimal Classification: 664
EuroVoc ID: 4416
Freebase ID: /m/05jkqm
Golden ID: Food_technology-XKRY9K
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: tecnologia-dels-aliments

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Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0212873
MeSH descriptor ID: D005524
MeSH tree code: J01.576.423.850
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 57123350
Museum-digital tag ID: 19479
NDL Authority ID: 033811308
NL CR AUT ID: ph115836
National Library of Latvia ID: 000337558
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0): XX4576727
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 1523
Quora topic ID: Food-Technology
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID: 18443-4
SVKKL authority ID: h0009478-potravinarska-technologie
Topic's main category: Category:Food technology
UK Parliament thesaurus ID: 10323
UNESCO Thesaurus ID: concept602
WikiKids ID: Levensmiddelentechnologie
YSO ID: 8754
Yale LUX ID: concept/9c9cbe58-02bf-454c-8a0c-8f018b9900a6

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Instance of 2

academic discipline, academic major

Has these parts 1

oenology

Practiced by 1

food technologist

Subclass of 1

food science

Topic's main category 1

Category:Food technology

← Category's main topic 1

Category:Food technology

← Field of this occupation 1

food technologist

← Field of work 1

International Union of Nutritional Sciences

← Industry 1

Upside Foods

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food technology is an academic discipline^[1].

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[1] ↑ food technology is an instance of academic discipline (Q11862829) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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