Food as Medicine: Can nutrition be a prescription?

UF/IFAS fosters interdisciplinary collaboration to develop innovative solutions addressing food, nutrition, and health challenges in Florida and beyond. The UF Food is Medicine (FiM) Initiative plays a central role in this mission, leveraging UF’s expertise across agriculture, Extension, research, teaching, and clinical and nutrition sciences to improve health and strengthen communities.

A diet regimen designed to address specific nutritional, physiological and/or medical goals.

The UF/IFAS Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition is among one of the world's largest combined programs in which food science, nutritional sciences, and dietetics are studied within one academic department.