Bromatology

One is in charge of the study of foods and the nutritional matters as far as:

• production
• manipulation
• elaboration
• distribution
• marketing

As well as the production of nutritional matters and its relation with the health.

Bate Smith: "body organized of knowledge on the chemical composition of foods" (to this definition him lack biological field), does not consider factors of quality like health nor either factors on treatment of foods.

Blandield:"coherent and systematized body of knowledge about the chemical composition, nature and conservation of foods"