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Food Scientists and Technologists
$79.86K Median Salary 1.7K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 7.3% Job Growth
About This Career
Use chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods; analyze food content to determine levels of vitamins, fat, sugar, and protein; discover new food sources; research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful; and apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, store, and distribute food.
Reported Job Titles
Food and Drug Research Scientist, Food Chemist, Food Engineer, Food Scientist, Food Technologist, Formulator, Product Development Scientist, Research Chef, Research Food Technologist, Research Scientist
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Skills You'll Need
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Abilities
Oral Comprehension
Problem Sensitivity
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Near Vision
Written Comprehension
Category Flexibility
Information Ordering
Oral Expression
Written Expression
Originality
Speech Clarity
Speech Recognition
Flexibility of Closure
Fluency of Ideas
Mathematical Reasoning
Number Facility
Visual Color Discrimination
Perceptual Speed
Selective Attention
Knowledge
Food Production
Biology
Chemistry
Production and Processing
English Language
Mathematics
Engineering and Technology
Education and Training
Physics
Skills
Active Listening
Reading Comprehension
Writing
Complex Problem Solving
Critical Thinking
Monitoring
Speaking
Active Learning
Judgment and Decision Making
Science
Quality Control Analysis
Systems Analysis
Systems Evaluation
Mathematics
Social Perceptiveness
Coordination
Instructing
Learning Strategies
Negotiation
Persuasion
Service Orientation
Time Management
Technology Skills
Spreadsheet software
Presentation software
Analytical or scientific software
Data base user interface and query software
Sales and marketing software
Electronic mail software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
Customer relationship management CRM software
Office suite software
Word processing software
Business intelligence and data analysis software
Object or component oriented development software
Web platform development software
Tools
Laboratory heat exchange condensers
Crushing machinery
Spectrofluorimeters or fluorimeters
Filling machinery
Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
Commercial use ranges
Microbiology analyzers
Viscosimeters
Cooking machinery
Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
Dehydrating machinery
Kjeldahl nitrogen determination apparatus
Infrared spectrometers
Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
Darkfield microscopes
Thermo gravimetry analyzers
Oxygen gas analyzers
Orbital shaking water baths
Scanning electron microscopes
Color sensors
Calorimeters
Standard fermentation units
Laboratory box furnaces
Laboratory mills
Freeze dryers or lyopholizers
Flask or retort units
Amino acid analyzers
Microcentrifuges
Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators
Commercial use griddles
Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
Laboratory membrane filters
Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
Stomachers
Laboratory balances
Laboratory diluters
Rheometers
Roasting machinery
Juicing machinery
Electronic counters
Bench refractometers or polarimeters
Commercial use grills
Nitrogen or nitrate or nitrite analyzer
Fluorescent microscopes
Melting point recorders
Microbiological aircontrol equipment
Tissue culture incubators
Spectrometers
Notebook computers
Commercial use food choppers or cubers or dicers
pH meters
Light scattering equipment
Gas chromatographs
Packaging vacuum
Sugar analyzers
Mass spectrometers
Homogenizers
Cutting machinery
X ray diffraction equipment
Ion chromatographs
Ice cream machines
Vacuum or rotary evaporators
Gel documentation systems
Autosamplers
Commercial use steamers
Electrophoresis system accessories
Commercial use food grinders
Strain gauges
Solution strength estimation apparatus
Sterilization cabinets
Water baths
Extracting equipment for laboratories
Commercial use microwave ovens
Commercial use food slicers
Nephelometers
Water analysis systems
Lasers
Anaerobic chamber
Atomic absorption AA spectrometers
Desktop computers
Blast freezers
High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
Fat extractors
Analytical balances
Microplate readers
Air samplers or collectors
Dehydrators
Personal computers
Blanching machinery
Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
Commercial use mixers
Colorimeters
Oscilloscopes
Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters
Thermal differential analyzers
Commercial use deep fryers
Conductivity meters
