The emergence of dietitian profession is to meet the needs of social health. Nutritionist is a comprehensive profession, which combines the characteristics of chefs, health professionals, medical practitioners, practitioners of Chinese medicine, psychologists, marketers and administrators. They are not only experts in food, but also experts in nutrition detection, nutrition fortification, nutrition evaluation and other fields to help people get healthy. The professional requirement of dietitians is to focus on health professional services.

The prospect of taking the dietitian exam is very scarce in China, and the employment prospect of public dietitians is very broad. Public dietitians can provide nutritional advice and guidance for healthy and sub-healthy people. Public nutritionists can not only play an important role in the community, but also provide education, consultation and guidance services for employees, white-collar workers, senior managers, athletes and families.

Employment function and direction

1, professional nutritionist: be a full-time nutritionist in enterprises, schools and kindergartens, or set up a nutrition consultation center by yourself;

2. Medical nutritionist: mainly engaged in doctors, nursing and nutrition and health care;

3. Health nutritionist: mainly engaged in the production, agency and sales of nutrition and health products;

4. Hotel nutritionist: mainly engaged in senior management of catering hotels, professional ordering chefs, senior executive chefs and chefs;

5. Food nutritionist: mainly engaged in the production and sales of fast food and nutritional catering;

6. Consulting nutritionist: provide nutrition consulting services for beauty salons, gyms, communities, entrepreneurs and high-income families.