The typical day of a Food Technologist is spent on following activities:

1. The day starts with checking the e-mails, seeing if there is any urgent communication required or any pending work left. They go through the emails and resolve them quickly.

2. They plan the day's schedule and prioritize day's activities so that they can effectively plan and execute their tasks.

3. The day can be a real mix - it might involve computer work all day, making, testing or preparing samples in the laboratory, having meetings with suppliers, marketers, or other company personnel, and some days (or nights) might be dominated by doing factory trials.

4. A lot of times, they do have to visit the factory and work on the samples to make their observations and also to meet the concerned team.

5. A lot of paper work is also required on their part to do the formalities. They do it in between whenever they find time.

6.The job often involves coming up with creative solutions to a variety of problems, and finding ways to improve product samples.

food technology is the study of science related to processing of food stuffs. This processing involves preservation of fruits, sea foods, meats, cooked food, vegetable, juices and beverages and the manufacturing of confectionery, snacks, food stuffs as well as packaging of all these for marketing.

The typical day of a food technologist depend upon the nature of his or her job.

The food technologist is trained to apply scientific knowledge of chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, physics and engineering to the processing of food stuffs, quality control, storage ate low temperature and research etc.

Food technologist , also known as food scientist, study the physical, chemical and biological composition of food. They are engaged in processing of food stuffs, preserving and packaging and search ways for enhancing flavors and the nutritional value of the food stuffs. Quality control of fresh and processed foods is their responsibility.





Food technologist is also busy in daily life concerned with food processing; the preservation of fruits, sea food, and all sorts of foods for marketing and consumption.

The main nature of job is as follows;

Research for devising new and improved food processing techniques

Guiding the processing, conservation and preservation of food stuffs

Creating new food stuffs generated from plant and animal life

Improving existing techniques for economizing the process

Adding value, creating new tastes for providing impetus to marketing and consumption of processed foodstuffs

Evolving measures such as infestation control, fungicidal treatment and insecticidal storage of products to protect foods from spoilage and damage.

Examining foodstuffs fro contamination, adulteration, food value etc, by biochemical, microbiological, chemical and nutrition tests and quality control measures

Developing new methods and processes for recovering useful and utilizable by products from industrial and domestic wastes of food stuffs.

Use of processes such as blending, anti oxidation etc.

The branches where a food technologist work includes cereals, grains, meat and poultry, fats and oils, seafood, animal food, beverages , dairy products, flavors, sugar starches, stabilizers, preservatives, colors and nutritional value.

In research their job entails studying food stuffs to analyze their structures and composition and the changes which occur during preservation and processing.

The working day of a food technologist depends upon the area of work and specialization. It may be biochemist, microbiologist, food analyst or quality control.