Food Science

Written by Sarah Cherere Obara 

In biology, immunity is the balanced state of multicellular organisms having adequate biological defenses to fight infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion, while having adequate tolerance to avoid allergy, and autoimmune diseases. Supplementation is the use of pills or special types of food in order to improve your health.

The web of science ranking that featured Kenyan authors between 2014 and 2020 saw three of the departmental staff ranked among top 500 authors. Prof. Michael Wandayi Okoth, a food process engineer with lots of experience ranked 299 with 21 peer reviewed publications, Dr. George Abong, Chair of the Department and Senior lecturer (Food Chemistry) ranked 387 with 18 peer reviewed publications and The Later Mr.

MANGO PROCESSING TRAINING

Mentorship session for Food Nutrition and Dietetics Students year one. By Dr. Alice Ojwang of the Technical University of Kenya, she was invited by Ms Sarah Obara the class mentor.  The students were also trained on Nutrition assessment. 

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. S.G. Kiama addressed  Staff and Students on online teaching and learning  on 9th April, 2020 at 11.00 am 

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Dr. Jeff Wamiti was among the Graduands of the university of Nairobi, 62nd Graduation Ceremony. Dr. Wamiti Graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Applied Human Nutrition. He was among many other students  from the department who graduated with Masters and Bachelors degrees