Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2020-2021
Course director
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Dr. Tímea VARJAS
assistant professor,
Department of Public Health Medicine -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 24 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 0 hours
total of: 24 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OXF-ETV-h-T
- 2 kredit
- General Medicine
- Optional modul
- autumn
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Course headcount limitations
min. 3 – max. 35
Available as Campus course for 10 fő számára. Campus-karok: ETK GYTK TTK
Topic
The food industries have been using food additives for decades, which aims to improve the shelf life, texture, nutritional value, appearance and digestibility of the products.
During the course lectures, the students will become more familiar with the groups of food additives, application areas, health effects of natural and artificial food additives. Our goal, to confirm or disprove the fear of using E-numbers on a scientific basis
Lectures
- 1. Introduction, characterization of food additives and their groups - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 2. Technological excipients and differences between food additives - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 3. Hungarian, EU, USA food additives regulations - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 4. The E-number system - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 5. The new additive authorization procedure - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 6. Safety investigation, review, controlling, forbidden food additives - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 7. Food dyes (E100-E199) - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 8. Health risks of Mono-azo food dyes - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 9. Preservatives (E200-E260) and their applications - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 10. Risks related to the consumption of preservatives - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 11. natural and artificial sweeteners Characteristics - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 12. Safe consumption of sweeteners - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 13. Usage and regulations of pH control agents (acidifiers) - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 14. Hazards of acidity regulators - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 15. Antioxidants (E300-E399), advantages and disadvantages - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 16. Bulking and gelling agents or (gelatin substitute) - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 17. Stabilizers and thickeners - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 18. Guar gum (guarana) panic hisotry - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 19. Taste enhancer chemical structure - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 20. Chinese resturant syndrome - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 21. Health concerns of polishers - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 22. Health effects of clumping inhibitors - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 23. Summary - Dr. Zand Afshin
- 24. test - Dr. Zand Afshin
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
PPT-presentations (Neptun)
Notes
Recommended literature
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
Absences should not exceed 15% of lectures and practicals (2x45 min). Otherwise signature of grade book is denied.
Mid-term exams
Examination: written test
Making up for missed classes
Based on individual consideration
Exam topics/questions
neptun