Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Describe the concept of food quality and its different attributes and aspects
• Explain the sensory characteristics of foods and their influence on consumer perception and satisfaction
• Discuss the nutritional aspects of food quality and its contribution to healthy foods
• Describe the role of food safety and food regulations in ensuring the quality of food
• Explain the process control and its influence on the production of quality foods
• Describe Pareto and control charts as important quality control tools to analyze and describe food
• Discuss the overall significance of the seven tools of quality in the food industry
• Distinguish between the concepts of food quality control (QC), assurance (QA), and Total Quality Management (TQM)
• Apply histograms, scatter, and flow diagrams as powerful quality control tools in the food industry
• Explain the fishbone diagram, its components, and its implementation in defining the root causes of problems