Introduction to the postgraduate course in healthy cooking

Beyond healthy cooking.

We will show you how to create, innovate and take the lead in healthy cuisine in the 21st century.

Healthy cooking is both the present and the future. It can be seen in new market consumer habits and awareness on a global scale.

In a growing and increasingly demanding market, one that is diverse and that needs health-inspired solutions, healthy cooking has become an essential consideration when planning and preparing the food offered in restaurants or nutrition services, whether they form part of a hospital sports medical or psychoneuroimmunology center.

It is time to break down the conceptual barriers of diets in order to offer consumers organic benefits, discover ingredients, products, time-honored techniques and new trends in modern cuisine, create healthy dishes and change eating habits.

At just over three months long, this program forms part of the training on two of the CIB's combined programs. It allows you to specialize in the world of healthy cooking and learn about aspects such as healthy eating, lifestyles, products, their transformation and the benefits for the social, cultural, nutritional and ecological spheres that we are working towards.

The following combined programs include the Postgraduate Course in Integrative Healthy Cooking:

Grand Chef Diploma: To become a chef with a global understanding of how kitchens operate by choosing from a variety of specialization courses.
Specialist Chef Diploma in Integrative and Healthy Cooking: For future chefs and nutritionists who want to kick start their career in healthy cooking..

You will learn to innovate by gaining comprehensive knowledge of raw materials, their value chain and transformation, and by practicing an infinite number of time-honored techniques (such as fermentation), modern techniques (such as low temperature cooking) and techniques from other cultures and schools of thought. We will combine the impact food science has on health with culinary practice in order to generate proposals that benefit physical, mental and social well-being.

Learning objectives

Preparing for healthy cooking in the 21st century

To monitor and manage nutritional balance

Nutrients, food, nutritional energy, balance through food, food philosophy and alchemy in the kitchen.
To master culinary trends focused on health and well-being

Learning about and bringing together current trends in healthy eating such as energetic cooking, living food and Ayurvedic medicine, as well as introducing a therapeutic perspective to nutrition.
To adapt healthy cooking to each consumer

Creating, adjusting, rethinking and planning food for different physiological and hormonal needs, diseases and nutritional requirements, whether for a baby, an athlete or a diabetic.
To apply the past, present and future of healthy cooking

Knowing where our ingredients come from and how to apply new developments in nutrition science. You will transform them using technology and your new skills to innovate and adapt proposals for healthy cuisine.
Scientific knowledge and its culinary application

Applying psychoneuroimmunology to personalized proposals, studying the gut microbiota, identifying metabolic or hormonal changes and adapting diets to suit each case.
Mastering techniques and skills for healthy cooking

Using respectful techniques such as fermentation or low temperature cooking to keep the food’s nutritional value as high as possible.
Creating and innovating for healthy cooking

Working with methodologies that encourage creativity to solve problems and using innovation as a tool to generate value and a competitive edge.
Living the product

Valuing where food comes from and how it is transformed consciously, highlighting the importance of seasonality and drawing inspiration from the environment by prioritizing the use of sustainable raw materials.

How you will become a chef specialized in healthy cooking

230 hours designed to transform

every day of your learning into a show

20+

TEACHERS

THE BEST IN THEIR FIELD
30+

HOURS

OF CHALLENGES & WORKSHOP THAT
WILL PUT YOU TO THE TEST
4

WORKSHOPS

MORE THAN 20 HOURS TO PUSH YOUR LEARNING TO THE LIMIT
3

FIELD TRIPS

DISCOVER AND EXPERIENCE
ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS
3

CHALLENGES

OUR ASSESSMENT IS YOUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE

We don't teach you recipes, that would be teaching you how to copy.

Here we teach you to create and lead the way in the 21st century.

Content

CIB Methodology

Who is the healthy cooking course for?

For chefs and healthcare professionals
who want to positively impact the health and well-being of others

I want to specialize as a chef

For professional chefs who want to focus on the field of healthy cooking.

I want to expand my culinary knowledge

For doctors, nutritionists and dieticians who want to apply culinary knowledge to their professional background in various fields such as macrobiotics, Ayurveda, hormonal changes or improving the gut microbiota.

I want to be a coach and chef specialized in healthy eating

For chefs or nutrition experts who want to offer integrated nutrition solutions through cooking intended for consumers' wellness plans.

I want to apply psychoneuroimmunology to personalized proposals

For psychoneuroimmunology experts who want to apply culinary techniques and technologies to their knowledge of holistic psychoneuroimmunology.

I want to improve my patients’ physical and mental performance

For professionals in the sports sector who want to incorporate integrative medicine into cooking to improve their patients’ personalized nutrition plans.

Who chooses the Healthy Cooking course?

Experienced professionals
from the culinary, health or nutrition sector

75%+

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

You will live with entrepreneurial students from all over the world.
28.7

AVERAGE AGE

Experiences from all ages that will enrich your learning.
9.8

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

In the catering, professional cooking and nutrition sector.
70%+

THE HEALTHY-COOKING SECTOR

They have been bringing value to the worlds of cooking, health and science for years.
60%

ARE CHEFS

Your peers are pursuing a professional career in gastronomy.
70%+

WANT TO START A BUSINESS

Professional friendships with like-minded entrepreneurs.

The CIB is for you if...

YOU BELIEVE THAT

Education in healthy cooking offered today is outdated
Education is an investment in your future
Education today is not aligned with 21st century life
Education in healthy cooking must be international
Education should allow for a positive work-life balance
Barcelona is a leading city in international gastronomic innovation

YOUR GOAL IS

To be an active player in new trends and frontiers
To become an expert in using cooking to benefit health and well-being
To take your career to the next level
To acquire the best education
To stand out from the crowd

YOU ARE

Entrepreneurial
Non-conformist
Passionate
Defiant
Creative

Opinions on the healthy cooking postgraduate course

We hear from the CIBers

Student chef in healthy cooking from Portugal at the Culinary Institute of Barcelona

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Rodrigo
from Portugal

"I have evolved as a chef to improve others’ quality of life”

Chef expert in healthy cooking from the Culinary Institute of Barcelona

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Kimberly
from The Philippines

“Cooking challenge, from food to nutrition”

Upcoming admission calls and prices

Your time is now

Early enrollment offer

The sooner you enrol, the less you pay.

Next admission call

January 2024

€ 7,425

Offer valid until 07/07/2023

€ 8,250

-10%

MORNING SHIFTS: LAST PLACES

Apply now

Upcoming admission calls

May 2024

€ 7,013

Offer valid until 07/07/2023

€ 8,250

-15%

MORNING SHIFTS: LAST PLACES

Apply now

What the price includes

Absolutely everything

Uniform

All the equipment you will need for the course.
All raw ingredients

At no other school in the world will you get to handle and cook with as many raw ingredients as at the CIB, all included in the price of the course.
All the experiences

All program activities, both at the CIB and off campus are included in the price.
CIB Membership

You will become a CIBer for the rest of your life. You will have access to unique job offers, benefits and professional opportunities.
Graduation ceremony

You will remember this day as one of the most special and memorable days of your life.

Benefits of being a CIBerSon

The CIB is just the beginning

[ Attitude ]

CIBers

Being a CIBer means being ready for tomorrow. They are united by this forward-thinking attitude and their goal of impacting the future by enhancing their surroundings.

Job opportunities

Former CIB students have access to our job opportunities board. Restaurants, hotels and food production businesses know that when they hire students from the CIB, they are getting a high level of talent.
Entrepreneurship

We nurture the talent that comes from our classrooms. Sometimes we have the honor of inviting this talent onto our team.
Events

The CIB organizes and hosts many events, and you, as a student or alumnus, will always be more than welcome.
Networking

When you finish your course, besides the knowledge you will have acquired, you’ll also have gained countless contacts of talented students from across the world, as well as your teachers. It will be up to you to make the most of them.
The next generation of teachers

We keep an eye out for talent and nurture that which emerges from our classrooms. Sometimes we have the honor of incorporating this talent into our team.
Your continuous education

CIBers will always have privileged access to our continuous education programs under the best conditions, including our postgraduate programs.
Use of the facilities

The CIB will be available for you to accelerate your ideas, give your presentations or propose an activity whenever you need it.

Career opportunities

Whatever your future holds.

We teach you how to stand out.

Careers:

Specialist chef in healthy cooking
Cooking professionals in hospitals, schools and communities
R&D leaders for healthy cooking projects
Healthy cooking consultant and adviser
Monitoring healthy cooking in schools
Expanding nutrition services applied to cooking
Health coach
Entrepreneurial business in healthy gastronomy

Your competitive advantages:

You will have an exceptional level of knowledge of the ingredients, their nutritional content and the individual cooking techniques needed to prepare medicinal dishes.
You will have a holistic vision of different types of diseases and conditions and their nutritional and dietary requirements.
You will obtain broad and comprehensive knowledge to develop alternatives and solutions that benefit people’s health and well-being
Your vision and training will be suitable for providing solutions to food problems and restrictions.
You will obtain a well-rounded understanding of gastronomy that will make you rethink the dishes you prepare in the future.
You will be able to create meal plans and culinary solutions to help others with specific problems.

The CIB admission process

Getting accepted by the CIB

At the CIB, we receive thousands of admissions requests, but only a certain number are accepted.

Candidate profiles are determined before each new enrollment period, and the Acceptance Committee strives to comply with the established criteria.

Only a handful of candidates pass the final phase.

Requirements

To be over 18
To pass the Admissions Committee's assessment

At the CIB, we do not take your academic background into account. Instead, we look at your attitude and inclination towards creativity and innovation, as well as your entrepreneurial spirit and life experience. We believe in people, not CVs. That's why you should go for it.

1

Request information
Send us your request and an advisor will call you as soon as possible to talk you through the process.

2

Send in your admission form
Once you have spoken with the advisor, they will give you access to the admission form and advise you on how to complete it correctly. We want to know about you, how you live, how you think, what you're doing and what's important to you.

3

Assessment interview
If we think you meet our criteria, you will go onto the interview phase. You will be able to arrange it for a time that suits you. We look at your attitude and inclination towards creativity and innovation as well as your entrepreneurial spirit and life experience. We believe in people, not CVs. That's why you should go for it.

4

Acceptance Committee
The Acceptance Committee will look over your application on the Monday following your interview, and we will notify you of the result by email that same day.

5

Enrollment
In the same notification, we will explain how to reserve your place and to begin enrolling for the course. You will have 30 days to complete this process.

Postgraduate course in: Integrative Healthy Cooking