From creating functional foods that support your health and also taste good, to developing packaging that protects food from pathogens, food scientists work to ensure the foods that fill your shopping cart are safe, nutritious and delicious.
Learning laboratories are plentiful, as students work on a variety of projects, including ones related to wine, chocolate, ice cream and BBQ sauce. Food science and nutrition students also get an in-depth education about all things ice cream through the on-campus ice cream shop, Buck’s, home of Mizzou’s signature Tiger Stripe ice cream.
Career Possibilities
Product Marketing Flavor/Color Science Food Safety Inspection Enology Global Food Trends Research
Internships & Employment
Aurora Organic Dairy • Beyond Meat • Independent Stave Company • Simmons Foods • Cargill • General Mills • Hormel Foods • Beck Flavors • Les Bourgeois Vineyards • Schreiber Foods
Signature Experience
Study Abroad
One of the many unique experiences available for food science students is to study abroad in Greece or Germany and Austria to learn about their food systems. This signature experience will provide you with invaluable experience that will serve you well after graduation.
As a result of his success at the National Dairy Products Evaluation contest on April 16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kevin Trieu (B.S. Food Science and Nutrition '24) received an all-expense paid trip to the QCS Fall Annual Conference held on Oct. 20 – 22 at the Hilton Denver City Center located in Denver, Colorado. Trieu placed…
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