Food Scientists and Technologists

Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 19-1012 · 81 skills

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Inspect food processing areas to ensure compliance with government regulations and standards for sanitation, safety, quality, and waste management.
Check raw ingredients for maturity or stability for processing, and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional value.
Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods, using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and other sciences.

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A bounded sample of popular skills mapped to this occupation, with at most one Skill from each GitHub repository. The complete mapped list follows.

tooluniverse-natural-product-dereplication

mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Dereplicate a putative natural product and assign its chemical taxonomy. Use to answer "is [compound] a known natural product", "what microbe/organism produces [compound]", "what chemical class is [compound]", "dereplicate this metabolite (by formula/exact mass/InChIKey/SMILES)", or "classify this molecule into ChemOnt". Searches NPAtlas for known microbial natural products (producing organism + literature reference), assigns the ChemOnt kingdom→superclass→class→subclass hierarchy via ClassyFire, resolves systematic IUPAC names to structure via OPSIN, and cross-references identity in PubChem. NOT for general drug/compound identity or ADMET (use tooluniverse-chemical-compound-retrieval / tooluniverse-small-molecule-discovery) and NOT for metabolomics pathway/enrichment analysis (use tooluniverse-metabolomics skills).

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when targeting Food Chemistry or deciding whether a food-chemistry manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the analytical-rigor and chemical-mechanism bar, method-validation expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

beita6969/ScienceClaw

Analyzes food science topics including nutritional composition, food chemistry, food safety hazard analysis, sensory evaluation design, and food processing optimization; trigger when users discuss nutrients, food additives, HACCP, shelf life, or food product development.

food-sustainability

FerroxLabs/wayland

Comprehensive guide to sustainable eating practices including local eating through CSAs and farmers markets, seasonal eating guide, reducing food waste through meal planning, storage, and composting, understanding food miles, exploring sustainable protein sources, garden-to-table growing, and food preservation techniques. Use when the user asks about food sustainability, or needs help with comprehensive guide to sustainable eating practices including local eating through csas and farmers markets, seasonal eating guide, reducing food waste through meal planning, storage, and composting, understanding food miles, exploring sustainable protein sources, garden-to-table growing, and food preservation techniques. Do NOT use when the request requires professional specialized advice or falls outside the scope of food sustainability.

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tooluniverse-natural-product-dereplication

mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Dereplicate a putative natural product and assign its chemical taxonomy. Use to answer "is [compound] a known natural product", "what microbe/organism produces [compound]", "what chemical class is [compound]", "dereplicate this metabolite (by formula/exact mass/InChIKey/SMILES)", or "classify this molecule into ChemOnt". Searches NPAtlas for known microbial natural products (producing organism + literature reference), assigns the ChemOnt kingdom→superclass→class→subclass hierarchy via ClassyFire, resolves systematic IUPAC names to structure via OPSIN, and cross-references identity in PubChem. NOT for general drug/compound identity or ADMET (use tooluniverse-chemical-compound-retrieval / tooluniverse-small-molecule-discovery) and NOT for metabolomics pathway/enrichment analysis (use tooluniverse-metabolomics skills).

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when targeting Food Chemistry or deciding whether a food-chemistry manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the analytical-rigor and chemical-mechanism bar, method-validation expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when targeting Nature Food or deciding whether a food-systems manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the food-systems-significance and transdisciplinary bar, evidence and reproducibility expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

trends-in-food-science-and-technology

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when targeting Trends in Food Science & Technology or deciding whether a food-science review manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the critical-synthesis and comprehensiveness bar, structure expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

beita6969/ScienceClaw

Analyzes food science topics including nutritional composition, food chemistry, food safety hazard analysis, sensory evaluation design, and food processing optimization; trigger when users discuss nutrients, food additives, HACCP, shelf life, or food product development.

food-sustainability

FerroxLabs/wayland

Comprehensive guide to sustainable eating practices including local eating through CSAs and farmers markets, seasonal eating guide, reducing food waste through meal planning, storage, and composting, understanding food miles, exploring sustainable protein sources, garden-to-table growing, and food preservation techniques. Use when the user asks about food sustainability, or needs help with comprehensive guide to sustainable eating practices including local eating through csas and farmers markets, seasonal eating guide, reducing food waste through meal planning, storage, and composting, understanding food miles, exploring sustainable protein sources, garden-to-table growing, and food preservation techniques. Do NOT use when the request requires professional specialized advice or falls outside the scope of food sustainability.

determination-of-invert-sugar-using-fehlings-solution

ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill

Provides the standard operating procedure for preparing Fehling's solutions, preparing a standard invert sugar solution, standardizing the Fehling's solution, and calculating the invert sugar content in samples such as tomato paste.

nutritional-organ-and-nutrient-mapping

ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill

Creates exhaustive lists mapping human body organs to specific nutrients (minerals or vitamins) and identifies food sources that provide those nutrients to support organ health.

organ-nutrient-food-mapping-generator

ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill

Generates exhaustive lists mapping human body organs to specific nutrients (minerals or vitamins) and their corresponding food sources.

mechanism-based-creative-dietary-ideation

ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill

Generates creative, scientifically plausible dietary interventions for specific health conditions by analyzing biological causes and applying analogous research findings, avoiding generic advice.

contested-claims-in-nutrition

Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator

A survey of the best-known active scientific controversies in nutrition — saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, dietary cholesterol, low-carb vs low-fat, ultra-processed foods, red meat and cancer, salt and blood pressure, and the replication status of popular single-nutrient claims. Use when a question asks whether a widely reported nutritional claim is settled, or when the department needs to distinguish "contested but plausible" from "settled" from "disproven."

dietary-assessment

Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator

Methods for assessing what people actually eat — 24-hour recall, food frequency questionnaires, diet diaries, biomarkers, duplicate-plate studies, and controlled feeding. Covers the relative strengths and biases of each instrument, how to choose among them for a given question, and how to interpret results in the presence of measurement error. Use when a user wants to estimate population-level intake, individual-level intake, or evaluate the plausibility of a dietary claim that depends on how intake was measured.