Higher

Health and Food Technology · Higher

Food, health and consumer choices: nutrition, food product development and practical work.

The course

What Health and Food Technology is about

Health and Food Technology looks at food and health together: nutrition through life, the chemistry of food, food product development, and the social and environmental factors that shape what people eat.

Where it leads

What it offers you

A route into nutrition, dietetics, food science, health promotion and hospitality courses and careers.

The archive

Papers & marking schemes

2022–2026

2025

4 files

2024

4 files

2023

3 files

Marking instructions

SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Health and Food Technology Higher on sqa.org.uk.

All Health and Food Technology levels