Welcome to the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota. Home to world-class researchers and educators, we are Driven to Discover™ the ways food impacts health and society.
Meet Dr. Kathleen Hill Gallant
Our new Associate Professor of Nutrition and her research team started with us last summer.
Celebrating Indigenous Women Chefs
Register for this first-of-its-kind, nationally acclaimed webinar series from our friends at the UMN Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute
Meet Dr. Leena Hilakivi-Clarke
Our new Professor of Nutrition will be based at the Hormel Institute in Austin, MN
News
Spring Student Success Spotlight
June 12, 2021Our students are unstoppable! Here’s another Student Success Spotlight full of some of their impressive spring achievements
PTS Holds Book Drive
December 11, 2020The UMN Chapter of the Phi Tau Sigma Food Science and Technology Honor Society recently donated over 500 books to Kisii University in Kenya
FScN Researcher Collaborates with Taco Bell and Dairy Management Inc
November 9, 2020Dairy Management Inc.’s (DMI) Global Innovation Partnership Team and our researcher, Sonia Patel, in her role as applications lab scientist within the Midwest Dairy Food Research Center (MDFRC) worked together to develop a first-of-its-kind, shelf-stable, dairy-based creamer for Taco Bell.