Special Diets Online Course

Please note this course does not require any actual cooking but does require you to be able to create menu items using the knowledge you have learnt during the course.

Topics Covered: 

• Health and Legal consequences

• Healthy diets and menus

• Religion-based and Cultural diets – preparation and cooking for religion

• Diets for Coeliac, Gluten Free, Restricting Sodium, Diabetics, Cholesterol, Weight Loss

Course Features:  

• The impacts of nutrition and guidelines

• Adjusting recipes
• Healthy related diets
• Understanding safe ingredients and cross-contamination
• Food sensitivity and allergies
• Recommendations for healthy eating for diabetics
• Texture modification
• Health and legal consequences
• Diets for coeliac, gluten free, restricting sodium, diabetics, cholesterol, weight loss
• Religion-based and cultural diets – preparation and cooking for religion
• Healthy diets and menus

Inclusions:

• Personal online login to our Learner Management System, all study material and videos.
• Online e-portfolio
• Certification

Exclusions: 

• Costs to purchase any technology and/or kitchen equipment that you may not have, but need to use in the programme
• Cost of your internet access
• Any printing you choose to do from the study guides