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Syllabus 2015-16 - 75112007 - Functional Food and Bioactive Food Components (Alimentos funcionales y componentes bioactivos de alimentos)

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DEGREE: Máster Univ. en Avances y seguridad de los alimentos
FACULTY: Centro de Estudios de Postgrado
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-16
COURSE: Functional Food and Bioactive Food Components
SYLLABUS
1. COURSE BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: Functional Food and Bioactive Food Components
CODE: 75112007 ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-16
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 2
ECTS CREDITS: 4.0 YEAR: 1 SEMESTER: SC
2. LECTURER BASIC INFORMATION
NAME: PRIETO GÓMEZ, Mª ISABEL
DEPARTMENT: U130 - CIENCIAS DE LA SALUD
FIELD OF STUDY: 410 - FISIOLOGÍA
OFFICE NO.: B3 - 245 E-MAIL: iprieto@ujaen.es P: +349532120
WEBSITE: http://www10.ujaen.es/conocenos/departamentos/ciesal
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0624-9504
LANGUAGE: English LEVEL: 2
3. CONTENT DESCRIPTION

1.- Introduction: Bioactive compounds and functional foods.Importance of functional foods in the Mediterranean diet.

2.- Bioactive compounds in functional foods: peptides, fatty acids and other bioactive lipids.

3.- Dietary supplements and nutraceuticals.

4.- Nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics and nutritional transcriptomics

5.- Intestinal microbiota: Biodiversity

6.- Intestinal microbiota: Normobiosis and dysbiosis

7.- Probiotics and prebiotics

8.- Transgenic food

4. COURSE DESCRIPTION AND TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Lecture (Theory):

25 Hours

Lecture (Conferences and other activities):

10 Hours 

Tutorials

5 Hours

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

5. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

Theory (40% total score)

Attendance to class (30% total score)

Seminars and homework (30% total score)

 

6. BOOKLIST
MAIN BOOKLIST:
  • Nutrition . Edition: -. Author: -. Publisher: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2011.  (Library)
ADDITIONAL BOOKLIST:
  • Bioactive foods in promoting health: probiotics and prebiotics. Edition: -. Author: -. Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press Elsevier, 2010.  (Library)
  • Dictionary of nutraceuticals and functional foods. Edition: -. Author: Eskin, N. A. Michael. Publisher: Boca Raton: CRC Press, cop. 2006  (Library)