With our Founder President’s unparalleled vision and dynamic leadership of Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, Amity Institute of Food Technology (AIFT) was established under the aegis of Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida in 2006. As a mission, AIFT has been functioning as a model educational and reseach institution and creating valuable human resource in the Food Science, Technology and Nutrition Domain for the last 15 years.
AIFT offers five Under-graduate programme – B. Tech. (Food Technology), B.Sc.(H) Home Science, B.Sc.(H) Home Science, B.Sc. (H) (Nutrition & Dietetics), B.Tech. (Food Technology) – International; two Post-graduate programmes – M. Tech. (Food Technology) and M.Sc. (Foods & Nutrition) and two Doctoral programmes – Ph.D. (Food Technology) & Ph.D. (Foods & Nutrition). It has also been successfully built Academia-Industry linkages to facilitate easy access for students for their Trainings and Placements. Institute is also taking a big leap in discovering, developing and designing next generation food and nutrition concepts which would eventually meet the needs of Industry and people to overcome malnutrition, optimal conservation and utilization of nation’s food resources. The institute has several thematic research clusters as: functional foods & nutraceuticals, biofilms, underutilized foods, valorizations, food equipment designing, meat analogues, food safety & sustainability. The department collaborates with many national and international organizations to generate cutting-edge technologies for sustainable food systems.