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Why study Food (GCSE only)?
The Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE combines the principles of food science, nutrition and healthy eating. It helps you develop cooking techniques, as well as knowledge of food traditions and kitchen safety, and gives you a range of skills like planning and organising, working independently, and applying science and creative skills.
It can lead to a wide range of careers – designing new ice cream flavours, working in a hotel, restaurant or tourist attraction, working in distribution or retail for a supermarket, or advising people about healthy eating as a nutritionist. Food tech combines well with biology, chemistry and business studies.
A selection of jobs using Food (GCSE only)
Tap any job below to see the full career profile on the National Careers Service website – including what the job involves, what it pays, and how to get into it.
