Abstract: Food analysis is an integrated professional course combining theory with practice. Teachers dominated the experimental class in traditional education while students just confirmed the experiments. The progress limited students’ independent thoughts and ignored initiative and creativity. The education reforms were carried out in training objective, strengthening professional ethics education and preparation before class, optimizating experiment content, and multiple assessment systems. After the reform, students did experiment more actively. In addition, their practical and thinking ability, sense of social responsibility were improved obviously.

Key words: food analysis, core competency, multiple assessments