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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.
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.
Provide an accessible, engaging learning space for all your students. Discover how Terry Weideman saw improved outcomes after introducing her nutrition students to MindTap’s user-friendly features.
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.
Help students explore nutrition and healthy habits hands-on with Diet and Wellness Plus. Interact with the demo below to see how students can track lifestyle choices, see how their habits relate to personal health goals and apply what they’ve learned.
Diet & Wellness Plus is powered by the ESHA/Trustwell database, connecting students to 100,000+ foods, including global, brand-name and custom options, for comprehensive nutrition analysis.
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.
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
Ready for the next step? Fill out our form to connect with a Cengage representative for a guided demo, or to talk through specifics.
Looking for inspiration for your course? Get tips from nutrition instructors, training resources to get started with MindTap, and more.
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.
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.
Give students a deeper understanding of how nutrition shapes health, culture and performance. 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.
Prepare students to excel in clinical and therapeutic nutrition. These courses build a strong foundation in normal nutrition while advancing students’ knowledge of pathophysiology and evidence‑based diet strategies, helping them see how nutrition supports health, prevent and manage disease and apply therapeutic principles confidently in practice.
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 provide 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.
With Diet & Wellness Plus, you can help your students gain a better understanding of how nutrition relates to their personal health goals. This diet analysis software enables students to track their diet and activity, generate reports and analyze the nutritional value of the food they eat. The Healthy Behaviors tool also helps students track their sleep habits, screen time and more, for a better understanding of their overall health.
Find a variety of MindTap and Diet & Wellness Plus training guides, video tutorials, webinars as well as other helpful training resources and tools to make the most of your nutrition courses. Explore our Nutrition training resources.
Absolutely. Contact a Cengage representative to request a demo of MindTap with Diet & Wellness Plus, or create an account to access demos for specific MindTap Courses, including nutrition courses.