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Harvard University

Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes

4.7110 ratings

In Food Fermentation: The Science of Cooking with Microbes, explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

  • edX
  • 14 weeks, 2 - 3 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Beginner

Harvard University

Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (chemistry)

4.735 ratings

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

  • edX
  • 16 weeks, 2 - 3 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Beginner

Harvard University

Science & Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (physics)

4.738 ratings

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

  • edX
  • 16 weeks, 2 - 3 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Beginner

Stanford Online

Rebuilding Our Relationship with Food

4.9364 ratings

Have you ever made a conscious effort to change the way you eat (for health or other reasons) and then felt frustrated when your plans were derailed? You’re not alone. The best laid plans are often sabotaged by a food environment that makes it increasingly hard to make healthier food choices. This…

  • Coursera
  • 4 weeks of study, 3-4 hours/week
  • Self-paced
  • Paid certificate

MIT OpenCourseWare

Land, Water, Food, and Climate

This reading seminar examines land, water, food, and climate in a changing world, with an emphasis on key scientific questions about the connections between natural resources and food production. Students read and discuss papers on a range of topics, including water and land resources, climate chan…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

MIT OpenCourseWare

Food in American History

This course will explore food in modern American history as a story of industrialization and globalization. Lectures, readings, and discussions will emphasize the historical dimensions of—and debates about—slave plantations and factory farm labor; industrial processing and technologies of food pres…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

Wageningen University & Research

Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition

4.864 ratings

Learn from the top professors of Wageningen University & Research about malnutrition and micronutrients and how they impact your health. This online course is offered as a MOOC, and is part of the Professional Certificate Pogramme: Nutrition and Health.

  • edX
  • 7 weeks, 6 - 8 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Intermediate

Stanford Online

Child Nutrition and Cooking

4.810,466 ratings

Eating patterns that begin in childhood affect health and well-being across the lifespan. The culture of eating has changed significantly in recent decades, especially in parts of the world where processed foods dominate our dietary intake. This course examines contemporary child nutrition and the…

  • Coursera
  • 5 hours of videos and quizzes
  • Self-paced
  • Paid certificate

Stanford University

Introduction To Food & Health

Empower yourself and your patients with evidence-based nutrition strategies. This CME/CE course equips healthcare providers with practical tools to foster healthy eating habits, improve patient counseling, and support sustainable lifestyle changes. Learn through case studies and expert insights. En…

  • edX
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Advanced

Wageningen University & Research

Nutrition and Cancer

4.750 ratings

Cancer has overtaken cardiovascular disease (CVD) as the leading cause of death in many parts of the world. It causes one in eight deaths worldwide. Global trends show that the majority of all cancer deaths occur in the low- and middle-income countries. Yet, cancer can be partly prevented and many…

  • edX
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Intermediate

Wageningen University & Research

Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition

4.574 ratings

Learn from the top professors of Wageningen University & Research about macronutrients and overnutrition and how they impact humans. This online course is offered as a MOOC, and is part of the Professional Certificate Pogramme: Nutrition and Health.

  • edX
  • 9 weeks, 6 - 8 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Beginner

Stanford Online

Introduction to Food and Our Environment

4.8182 ratings

This course is designed to help learners around the world become more sustainable eaters. Course videos can be watched in any order. Feel free to explore special areas of interest by skipping ahead and coming back to less familiar topics at a later stage. Together, we’ll explore key topics, like ho…

  • Coursera
  • 4 weeks of study, 4-5 hours/week
  • Self-paced
  • Paid certificate

The University of Edinburgh

Nitrogen: A Global Challenge

4.457 ratings

Learn about the global nitrogen challenge, how nitrogen has helped human civilization to develop, and how its misuse now threatens us. This course is also available with captions in the following languages: Bengali Bhutan Chinese Dari Hindi Hungarian Maldivian Nepalese Portugese Sinhalese Spanish U…

  • edX
  • 5 weeks, 2 - 3 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Beginner

Wageningen University & Research

Sustainable Food Security: Food Access

4.79 ratings

Who decides what food is on your plate? Understand the basics of access to food and food decision-making from a multilevel perspective in this course. This online course is offered as a MOOC, and is part of the XSeries Sustainable Food Security.

  • edX
  • 6 weeks, 7 - 9 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Beginner

Stanford Online

Stanford Introduction to Food and Health

4.734,226 ratings

Around the world, we find ourselves facing global epidemics of obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and other predominantly diet-related diseases. To address these public health crises, we urgently need to explore innovative strategies for promoting healthful eating. There is strong evidence that global increa…

  • Coursera
  • 5 weeks of study, 1 hour/week
  • Self-paced
  • Paid certificate

Wageningen University & Research

Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production

4.910 ratings

How to feed the world without depleting our planet’s reserves? Learn the basics of crop production. This online course is offered as a MOOC, and is part of the XSeries Sustainable Food Security.

  • edX
  • 6 weeks, 7 - 9 hours per week
  • Self-paced
  • Free to audit
  • Paid certificate
  • Intermediate