Applied Human Nutrition for Food Scientists and Home Economists discusses about basic concepts of nutrition for food scientists and home economists. This book comprises topics such as food composition, dietary patterns and popular diets as well as digestion and metabolism. Different aspects are also discussed in this book which basically are important to understand human nutrition. Readers are provided with explanation of topics such as nutrition and home economics as well as nutrition and food science. This book lays down explanation and importanace of nutrition and food science, nutrition during pregnancy as well as nutrition during childhood. As nutrition is an integral part of daily life it is more than what meets the eye and this book tried to explain the same in a simplistic manner.