Master in Culinary Medicine

The first university-level course on the branch of medicine that cultivates longevity with evidence-based recipes.

Higher Education

50 ECM credits

Up to 12 CFU

Online or in person

Final Diploma

The Master

Become a Professional of the future

The only academic program in Europe that combines Anti-Aging Nutrition Science with culinary practice, to prevent, lose weight, and live healthily with the most delicious dishes of the Made in Italy tradition reformulated with more flavor and fewer calories. The Academy is a University Technological Hub IUL.

The only Master in Europe that combines:

Theory of Culinary Medicine

Practice in the kitchen

Tradition Made in Italy

Psychological Well-being

Nutrition Anti-aging

Nutritional Security

Culinary Medicine Program, in collaboration with:

To whom is it addressed?

Culinary Medicine is a cross-disciplinary field.

For this reason, our training is designed for those who share our goal: improving people's health through food.

Health and wellness professionals

To integrate practical skills into one's professional activity

  • Doctors
  • Nutrition biologists
  • Dietitians
  • Pharmacists
  • Psychologists and coaches
  • Wellness and prevention professionals

What we offer:

  • The skills to replace diets with delicious, sustainable, and effective long-term meal plans
  • The tools to customize meal plans also based on habits and tastes
  • The knowledge to transform scientific research into evidence-based recipes
  • The update on the most recent scientific evidence about longevity food

What will make your profession grow:

  • You stand out because your clients achieve their health goals without sacrifices.
  • You will guide people's dietary change by enhancing traditional Italian cuisine.
  • You will be able to become a consultant for restaurateurs and food industries.

Food professionals

To evolve one's role in the world of cooking and catering

  • Chef and cooks
  • Food creator
  • Catering operators
  • Entrepreneurs in the food sector
  • Teachers of hospitality schools

What we offer:

  • Skills to create recipes suitable for allergies, intolerances, and health needs
  • Knowledge to create tasty dishes rich in antioxidants
  • Culinary techniques to substitute fats, sugar, and salt, enhancing the flavor of recipes and boosting your creativity

What will make your profession grow:

  • You become a point of reference for customers who care about wellness.
  • You will be able to design recipes for the prevention and therapeutic support of diseases.
  • You will have new job opportunities in clinics and wellness centers.
  • Join our team of teachers and consultants.

Cooking and wellness enthusiasts

To transform your passion into concrete skills

  • People passionate about cooking and wellness who want to live healthily with taste.

What we offer:

  • Reliable and scientific knowledge
  • Practical skills in the kitchen
  • Personal and professional growth

What you will take home:

  • Understanding scientific research
  • Change your eating habits so that they become your allies for healthy longevity.
  • Learning new recipes and cooking techniques from great chefs
  • Giving value to your life, educating the little ones, sharing knowledge

What do you learn from the Master's in Culinary Medicine?

Prevent and help treat tumors, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and premature aging through diet.

Cooking in a healthy, delicious, easy, and economical way with Culinary Medicine techniques.

Over 60 topics on Nutrition and 50 recipes in which Medicine is applied to cooking.

To stay in shape, live a long life, and, if you need to, lose weight, by eating every day 2 first courses and two desserts.

The right pairings to make in every recipe.

How vitamins and antioxidants in foods change depending on the cooking methods.

What are the correct quantities of each food and nutrient to include in recipes.

Innovative technologies and ingredients that allow you to increase fiber, vitamins, antioxidants, and to replace sugars, salt, and fats.

How to keep blood sugar, cholesterol, and weight under control and avoid the traps set by industries.

What are process contaminants, that is, the carcinogens that can develop during cooking.

Everything you need to know about allergies and intolerances.

The nutrition of women and children at various stages of life.

What job opportunities?

Why choose the master's degree in culinary medicine?

Continuously increasing trend

Anti-aging Revolution

People are increasingly attentive to their health and diet. Healthy Food represents a huge market opportunity: CSIRO estimates an annual growth of 3.6% in the sector and a total turnover of 25 billion dollars by 2030.

Sought-after professional

Greater job opportunities

The Master's program allows you to acquire unique and innovative skills in Europe, sought after by most companies, both in healthcare and the food sector, opening the door to many more job opportunities.

A great new feature, introduced on September 15, 2023: Thanks to our constant growth, we have decided to offer those who graduate from the Master in Culinary Medicine a potential and profitable partnership with one of our companies, Antiaging Italian Food Srl.

Improve the world

Ethics and nutritional sustainability

You will acquire all the knowledge to perform your job in the most ethical and sustainable way possible, helping people to feel good, to live in full health with the most intense flavors of the Made in Italy tradition.

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Successful graduates

Testimonials

High employment rate and professional growth

Master Directors

Prof. Michele Rubbini

Medical Doctor-Surgeon

Former Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara and Holder of the Teaching of Culinary Medicine in the Degree Course of Medicine and Surgery

Dr. Chiara Manzi

Nutritionist

Teacher of Culinary Medicine, University of Ferrara. Lecturer in Scientific Communication, University of Milano Bicocca. Founder of Cucina Evolution Academy. President of the Association for Nutritional Safety in the Kitchen.

Excellent teachers

High employment rate and professional growth

You can start whenever you want and you have one year to complete the course.

Possibility of obtaining 50 ECM credits through the connected FAD platform

Scholarship for university students and recent graduates within the last 6 months

Master's Diploma in Culinary Medicine

Asynchronous online mode

Payment can be financed up to 6 installments.

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Lessons
110 hours and over 166 Video Lessons, both theoretical and practical
10 Live Webinars with specialized instructors
40 hours and 5 in-person training courses in Bologna
Certification
Up to 9 ECTS credits
Up to 12 ECTS credits
50 ECM credits
Final Online Exam
Master's Diploma in Culinary Medicine
Materials available
Slides and practice tests in preparation for the exam
Textbook of CULINARY MEDICINE, Zanichelli edition
Functional Ingredients Kit: Excellence Inulin and Erythritol
Nutritional calculation software
Additional benefits
Tutor always available
Private Facebook group
Premium subscription to the GOLOSILONGEVI APP
12 months
12 months
Payment available in convenient installments
Up to 6 installments
Up to 6 installments

Registration methods

Training program

60 Theoretical lessons of Culinary Medicine to watch comfortably online at any time of the day.

  • the history of Culinary Medicine
  • the cuisine of longevity: what characteristics should it have?
  • the scientific evidence behind Culinary Medicine
  • the Mediterranean diet: characteristics and evolution
  • the metabolism of nutrients
  • the bioavailability of nutrients depending on food combinations
  • how macronutrients and micronutrients in foods change depending on preparation and cooking methods
  • process contaminants
  • antioxidants in vivo: what they are, in which foods they are found, how they behave during cooking
  • allergies and intolerances: how to modify recipes to eliminate allergens
  • reading labels
  • longevity pastry: sugar substitution
  • how to lower the glycemic index of recipes
  • salt: how to replace it in recipes
  • fats: how to replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats
  • how to replace fats in recipes with fibers
  • nutritional balancing of recipes
  • recipe reformulation
  • new culinary technologies serving health

50 Practical Video Lessons on Culinary Medicine

  • over 400 longevity recipes
  • recipes for cholesterol control
  • recipes for blood sugar control
  • recipes for allergies and intolerances
  • recipes for cancer prevention and treatment
  • recipes for gastrointestinal tract diseases
  • longevity desserts and longevity frying
  • antiaging pizza and leavened products, also gluten-free
  • longevity first courses
  • vacuum cooking with new antiaging techniques
  • Physics, chemistry, and nutrition of vacuum cooking
  • New technologies for reducing food calories
  • Traditional fresh pasta, including gluten-free
  • Pastry for longevity – Basic techniques
  • Pastry for longevity – Advanced course
  • The science of leavened products for longevity
  • Pastry and baking without allergens and for special needs
  • Meal Prep and Batch Cooking: cooking 3 hours a week for the whole family

Materials and articles in contact with food (MOCA) – Dr. Chiara Manzi, Dr. Maria Rosaria Milana;
Materials in contact with food – Dr. Chiara Manzi, Dr. Marina Marinovic;
Supplements: healthy or harmful? – Dr. Chiara Manzi, Prof. Paolo Stacchini;
Food safety and process contaminants – Dr. Chiara Manzi, Dr. Floriana Cimmarusti.

You will participate in 5 live webinars with specialized instructors, each lasting 1 hour.

  • Theoretical lesson slides;
  • Practice tests;
  • Exclusive Facebook group;
  • Direct contact with teachers;
  • Tutor always available.

After passing the Final Online Exam, you will receive the Diploma in Culinary Medicine.

Facilities

50% Discount for Students and Recent Graduates

Invest in your future with Culinary Medicine. The Cucina Evolution Academy is excited to announce an extraordinary opportunity for university students or recent graduates within the last 6 months, passionate about culinary medicine. In collaboration with ASSIC, we offer an exclusive scholarship that covers 50% of the investment in our renowned Master in Culinary Medicine. You just need to mention it to one of our AntiAging Consultants after requesting information, and they will unlock the scholarship for you!

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