BSc Home Science Meal Planning for Health Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the Semester 3 syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. The University still examines the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it — her third-year timetables name that scheme — so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Meal Planning for Health
The University sets this paper in all four of her Semester III and IV circulars — Community Resource Management (4); Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics (Major); Human Development (4); Textile and Fashion Technology (4). The second year is common to the whole degree, so it is one paper here; the wording shown is from the circular that sets the fullest version of it.
Module I: Introduction to Meal Planning, Nutrition in Adulthood and Nutrient Focused Recipes and Meal Plans
- I Introduction to Meal Planning
- i Meaning and importance of meal planning, use of basic food groups, meal patterns and food selection according to different activities & socio economic levels
- ii Application of exchange lists and Indian Food Composition Tables in meal planning
- iii Introduction into different life cycle stages requirements
- II Focused Nutrient Dense Recipes and Meal Plans
- i Protein
- ii Omega 3
- iii Fiber
- iv Calcium
- v Iron
- vi Vitamin A
- vii Vitamin C
- viii B Complex Vitamins
- ix Other key nutrients - Overview
- III Meal Planning, recipe selection and meal preparation for adult men and women – with focus across body frames, activity levels (Heavy, moderate and sedentary workers) and life and
- professional situations
- IV Meal Planning, recipe selection and meal preparation for pregnant and lactating mothers –
- with special focus on meal plans across the three trimesters
- i Calcium and iron rich recipes
- ii Meal plans to manage nausea, vomiting and gastro esophageal reflux in the first trimester
- iii Small frequent energy dense meals in the third trimester
- iv Meal plans for 0 – 6 months of lactation
- v Meal plans for 7 months to 2 years of lactation
- vi Galactogogue rich recipes
Module II: Meal Planning through Childhood, Adolescence and Geriatric Life Cycle Stages
- I Meal Planning, recipe selection and meal preparation for infancy
- i Liquid, semi-solid and solid foods
- ii Preparation of Amylase Rich Foods (ARF)- Demonstration
- II Meal Planning, recipe selection and meal preparation for childhood – with special focus on
- healthy packed lunches and nutrient dense snacks.
- i Toddlerhood
- ii Early childhood
- iii Middle Childhood
- iv Late childhood
- III Meal Planning, recipe selection and meal preparation for adolescent boys and girls – with
- special focus on nutrient dense meals
- i Nutrient dense snacks
- ii Blending palatability with nutrition
- iii Snacks designed to better performance and cognitive health
- IV Meal planning and meal preparation for Geriatric population with focus on effects of
- physiological changes
- i Change of consistency
- ii Loss of muscle and sarcopenia
- iii Gastrointestinal well being
- iv Cognitive well being
- v Visual Well being
Text Books & Reference Books
- 1 Basic Food Preparation (Third Edition). (2001). India: Orient Longman Private Limited.
- 2 Brown, J. E., Lechtenberg, E., Murtaugh, M. A., Splett, P. L., Strang, J., Wong, R., Bowser, E. K., Leo nberg, B. L., Sahyoun, N. R. (2020). Nutrition Through the Life Cycle. United States: Cengage Learning.
- 3 Longvah, T., An̲antan̲, I., Bhaskarachary, K., Venkaiah, K. (2017). Indian Food Composition Tables. India: National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research.
- 4 Manay, N. S., Shadaksharaswamy, M. (2008). Food: Facts and Principles. India: New Age International (P) Limited.
- 5 Raymond MS, R., Morrow, K. (2022). Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process, 16e, E-Book. United States: Elsevier.
- 6 Recommended Dietary Allowance for Indians 2024 https://www.nin.res.in/dietaryguidelines/pdfjs/locale/DGI07052024P.pdf
- 7 Srilakshmi, B. (2006). Nutrition Science. India: New Age International.
- 8 Srilakshmi, B. (2011). Dietetics. India: New Age International Pub.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Home Science) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2025-26. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.