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Produce Prescriptions & Culinary Medicine
Learn how to use fruits and vegetables as powerful tools for healing. This course teaches you how to create produce-based dishes and snacks that improve health and support lasting behavior change in a way that honors the clients wallet, palate and cultural heritage. The culinary component is key—turning prescriptions into practical, delicious meals that make sustainable diet change possible.
In this course you will learn about:
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Food Basics
- Food Prescriptions
- Food Assessments
- Food Insecurity
- Food Coaching
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Taste & Flavor
- The difference between taste & flavor
- Types of tasters
- Evaluate a person's taste preferences
- Cultural Preferences
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Culinary Skills
- Essential Culinary Skills
- Cooking
- Basic Skills including safety
- Transforming Kitchens
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Fruit
- Basics - benefits, recommendations,
- Assessment
- At the Store - how to shop and store fruit
- Flavor Development
- Preparing
- Serving and Planning
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Vegetables
- Basics - benefits, recommendations
- Assessment
- At the Store - how to shop and store vegetables
- Flavor Development
- Preparing
- Serving and Planning
Course Overview
- Created for Community Health Workers and anyone working in produce prescription programs - growers, CSAs, Food shelves/pantry/bank ...
- All online and at your own pace
- ~ 15 hours + practice time cooking and preparing
- Earn a Certificate in Culinary medicine for Produce Prescriptions
