The awareness about role of food in maintaining good health and prevention of disease has increased dramatically and hence there is a huge market opportunity for nutraceuticals and industry will need more and more trained manpower. Nutraceutical is a nutritional product that provides medicinal benefits in addition to its regular nutritional value (nutrition + pharmaceutical). Nutraceuticals may refer to foods, dietary supplements, medicinal foods as well as functional foods that may contribute to prevention and / or treatment of disease.

Nutraceuticals is a two year post graduate course has been introduced to provide trained manpower to food and nutraceutical industry considering huge market opportunity.

• Placements Assistance in various industries as Omni Active, Cadbury, Roha Dychem, Envirocare Interlink Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Britannia, Raptakos Brett Pvt. Ltd.
• Industrial Training: Cadbury, Marico Industries Pvt. Ltd., Mahananda Dairy, Microchem Sillikers, Roha Dye Chem Industries Pvt. Ltd. Britannia, Interlink Consultancy Pvt. Ltd,
• Students have career options in the field of Packaging Industry, Quality assurance, Quality control, Regulatory affairs, Research and development, Technical sales and marketing.

• B.Sc. (Zoo/Bot/Microbio/LifeSc./ Chem/Biochem/Biotech or degree in Food & Nutrition, Pharmacy, Medical Sc.)

• Food chemistry, Biochemistry and Biostatistics
• Human Nutrition, Physiology and Clinical Dietetics
• Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
• Instrumentation & Biological Evaluation
• Microbiology, Quality & Process Control
• Development & Marketing of Nutraceutical Products
• Molecular Biology and Biotechnology for Nutraceutical Products
• Total Quality Control & Assurance, Regulatory Affairs

• Well equipped laboratory with sophisticated instruments like HPTLC, HPLC, GC, FTIR, AAS, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, Karl- Fischer titrator.
• Manpower training for exploitation of traditional systems of medicines for nutraceutical industry.
• Training in formulation, processing, manufacture and packaging of nutraceutical products.
• Training in IPR with respect to Nutraceuticals.
• Knowledge of instrumental methods of analysis.
• Experienced and highly qualified in-house faculty as well as interaction with visiting faculty from industry and research institutes.
• 8 week industrial training.
• NutraZest- fest for showcasing the formulated and packed products by the students

1. Dr. Gauri Vahalkar, Ph.D. Biochemistry
   Designation: - Course Coordinator
2. Ms. Subhashini Maharana , M.Sc. Biochemistry
   Designation: - Lecturer