About the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Knapp Hall is the hub of all activity for the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences; housing its administrative offices, nutrition and extension faculty. 

Animal and Food Science Lab Building which features analysis labs, product processing, food chemistry labs, product development/sensory evaluation facilities, fermentation, demonstration kitchen, and a commercial kitchen as well as housing Food Science faculty offices. 

Human Ecology Building features a full kitchen and an air garden which grows tomatoes, herbs and lettuce to improve sustainability. The labs are used to teach nutrition students, test and create recipes for the Cooperative Extension.

Ingram Hall features a government-approved commercial kitchen, pilot plant and ample space for freezer, cooler and dry storage needs for all FOODii tenants while also housing the Administrative Support Area.  FOODii client conference room and Staff Offices for Foodii are found in H.D. Wilson.

FOODii Bottling facility houses small and large bottling lines along with storage areas and shipping/receiving areas. 

The only one of its kind in Louisiana, located in Jeanerette — opened in July 2022 with the goal of helping potential and existing seafood processors explore opportunities and new concepts in processing, packaging and value-added seafood products. It features commercial processing equipment that is used for demonstration, training and research.

School of Nutrition and Food Science has many well equipped laboratories across campus such as our Food Safety Lab/Bio-Safety I & II labs found in Dalrymple Building, Food Safety and Microbiology lab in AgChemistry, our Molecular Nutrition labs in Life Sciences Building and Pennington Biomedical Research Center, our Probiotic, Physical Property and Chemical Lab, along with a Food/bio Processing Lab are found in H.D. Wilson.