The goal of the course is to increase the awareness of food and its components to students and to encourage students think in different ways about the food choices they make. It is also aimed to guide the students on known ?food myths? that do not have any scientific base.  It is NOT a nutrition class and does not intend to tell anyone what to eat. 

The objectives of the course could be listed as follows:

• To make students familiar with the components of food that they consume very often in their daily lives.
• To  learn the basic physicochemical changes occurring in foods during processing (cooking, baking etc) and storage.
• To teach the importance of food safety in the food chain.
• To increase knowledge on food facts so that students could discuss about the food myths in the community based on scientific evidence. 
• To increase awareness on food choices and relate them with health effects.