Food and Nutrition is a comprehensive guide to nutrition and dietetics. It includes the following sections: Evolution, culture and food; Contemporary food use; Food composition, processing, regulation and safety; The biology of food components; Lifespan nutrition; Foods and diseases; Nutrition monitoring and surveillance, Primary health care and nutrition; Food production and the environment.

Covering issues and data throughout the Australiasian, Asian and Pacific regions, illustrated throughout with line drawings and graphs, and written in clear and accessible language, Food and Nutrition is an indispensable student text and a handy professional reference. Food and Nutrition is a successor to the leading text Food and Nutrition in Australia.

New edition out in 2002. Visit the Food and Nutrition Test bank, a support site to the book.