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Cengage’s Learning Platform Courses: Designed to help you connect nutrition concepts to real-world practice

Trusted content, flexible teaching options and AI-powered tools enhance your nutrition courses, helping you connect your lessons to the real world. With customizable pathways, seamless LMS integration and real-time insights, our learning platforms help you support your students today, while preparing them for what comes next.

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MindTap is Cengage’s Learning Platform to support nutrition education

MindTap Courses for Nutrition combine interactive content and AI-powered tools to help students think critically about health and nutrition choices.


Identifying Misinformation engages students in analyzing and fact-checking nutrition claims.

Global Nutrition Watch connects course concepts to nutrition via articles and auto-graded questions.

A Closer Look activities apply concepts to real-world scenarios such as label analysis and disease-related nutrient roles.

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Content from leading nutrition authors

Cengage’s nutrition authors are among the most respected voices in the field. Their deep expertise shapes the high-quality content in our nutrition courses to help your students build a strong foundation and mastery of complex concepts.

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Diet & Wellness Plus connects nutrition to health goals

Diet & Wellness Plus helps students explore nutrition and healthy habits with a database of 100,000+ foods, including global, brand-name and custom options. Students can track diet, activity and lifestyle choices, while built-in reports and assignments help them see how their habits relate to personal health goals and apply what they’ve learned.

Bongo drives active learning

Bongo drives active learning

Engage students with video presentations, demonstrations and peer review to assess nutrition knowledge and communication. Fully integrated with MindTap, Bongo streamlines grading, boosts critical thinking and prepares students for real-world practice.

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Student Assistant

Available in select MindTap Courses, our AI-powered Student Assistant is trained with input from faculty and students and built on exclusive Cengage content. It guides learners through critical thinking, while maintaining accuracy, privacy and full alignment with the nutrition course materials you assign.



“The use of the combined Diet and Wellness Plus and MindTap allowed students to apply knowledge and, because it was their data, 90% stated they would change behaviors now or in the near future.”

— Cinda Catchings, Director and Instructor for Food, Nutrition, and Community Health Sciences at Alcorn State University

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Explore nutrition courses

Discover the latest nutrition teaching tools and interactive content featured in your MindTap Courses, including introductory nutrition and food preparation, to guide your students’ learning experience.

Introduction to Nutrition

Introduce your students to the essential principles of nutrition. Introductory nutrition courses cover core concepts in food, nutrients and health, helping students understand evidence-based information, think critically and apply knowledge to real-world situations.

Special Topics in Nutrition

Give students a deeper understanding of how nutrition shapes health, culture and performance. These nutrition courses help learners build applied knowledge they can use in real-world settings, whether they're exploring the body's changing nutritional needs, examining cultural influences on food choices or strengthening their grasp of metabolism and athletic fueling.

Nutrition and Diet Therapy

Prepare students to excel in clinical and therapeutic nutrition. These courses build a strong foundation in normal nutrition while advancing students’ knowledge of diet strategies, helping them see how nutrition supports health, prevent and manage disease and apply therapeutic principles confidently in practice.

FAQs for nutrition courses and MindTap

Have questions about how MindTap works, which nutrition courses are available, and how our AI-powered tools support your nutrition teaching? Here are answers to the questions nutrition instructors ask most.

To create a MindTap Course for Nutrition, you will need to first sign into your account. After that, you can create a course by following these steps

MindTap Courses for Nutrition provides a guiding learning experience to help students become career-ready through engaging, relevant and real-world application. Nutrition teaching tools, case-study activities and AI-powered support connect nutrition to real life, making complex concepts accessible.

Find a variety of MindTap training guides, video tutorials, webinars as well as other helpful training resources and tools to make the most of your nutrition courses. Explore our MindTap training resources.

Absolutely. Contact a Cengage representative to request a demo of MindTap, or create an account to access demos for specific MindTap Courses, including nutrition courses.