Career development of nutrition caterers

The gap of nutrition caterers is 4 million, and the number of chefs in China is120,000. According to the chef service 10 diners, there are120,000 people eating out every day. Based on the average of 30 chefs in each business division, 1 nutrition caterer is provided, with a gap of 4 million. China is a big cooking country in the world, but the application of nutrition in catering is still relatively backward. Food and nutrition are often unbalanced and even conflict. For many years, the lack of nutrition knowledge of chefs is closely related to the lack of cooking knowledge of nutritionists. Trained and qualified nutrition caterers can ensure that they understand the basic knowledge of nutrition and make delicious food at the same time. The task of the nutrition caterer is to comprehensively apply the knowledge of nutrition, cooking, food raw materials, food chemistry, food hygiene, TCM nourishing, health preserving theory, etc., and provide delicious and balanced meals for diners through scientific and reasonable nutrition calculation, recipe design, cooking raw material collocation and improvement of cooking methods, so that healthy people can eat healthier and unhealthy people can eat healthier.

The vocational training of "Nutrition Caterer" in China is in full swing. The Skills Training and Development Division of the Education and Training Center of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China has held four teacher training courses and organized trainings in Beijing, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hebei and Liaoning. In this process, there are still a series of tasks such as the need to continuously improve teaching materials and the continuous strengthening of teachers. The professional qualifications of nutrition caterers are divided into three grades: intermediate, advanced and technician.