Your future
Health Food Innovation Management graduates will be able to independently develop and implement innovation and entrepreneurial activity at all levels of the food and beverage industry. You'll be able to find positions in the management interface between product development, research and technology. Typical career paths include:
Food industry
Many graduates of Health Food Innovation Management end up working for companies in the food industry, where they, for example, work on product development, give nutritional advice for marketing purposes or check for compliance with food regulations.
Research
Other Health Food Innovation Management graduates end up working on food related research projects, either at universities or at commercial research organisations. They conduct studies into topics such as:
- The effects of pre- pro- and synbiotics in healthy adults and elderly people
- Satiety induction by protein supplements
- Gastrointestinal breakdown of dietary ingredients, and in-vitro screening of the effects of diet-derived intestinal metabolites
- Lifestyle interventions in health food innovation
- Health claim regulation
Graduates have found positions as:
- Project Manager at SKIM
- Global Regulatory Affairs Support at Nestlé Health Sciences
- PhD candidate at Maastricht University
- Nutritionist at Unilever Benelux
- Assistant Nutrition and Health Manager at Unilever
- Project Manager at NIZO Food Research