Department of Life and Consumer Sciences

Dr F Malongane

College of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
School of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Department: Life and Consumer Sciences
Senior Lecturer
E-mail: malonf@unisa.ac.za

Expertise

  • Food Security
  • Indigenous foods
  • Nutrition

Qualifications

  • B.Sc (Dietics)
  • MSc (Public Nutrition)
  • PhD (Nutrition)

Fields of academic interests

Teaching Interest:

  • Nutrition through the lifecycle
  • Nutritional Management of chronic diseases of lifestyle

Research interest:

  • Nutirtional contribution of indegenous food crops in South Africa
  • Public Nutrition

Journal articles

  • Malongane, F., McGaw, L. J., Nyoni, H., & Mudau, F. N. (2018). Metabolic profiling of four South African herbal teas using high resolution liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance. Food Chemistry, 257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.02.121

  • Mungofa, N., Malongane, F., & Tabit, F. T. (2018). An exploration of the consumption , cultivation and trading of indigenous leafy vegetables in rural communities in the greater tubatse local municipality , Limpopo Province , South Africa, 3, 53–67
  • Malongane, F. & Mbhenyane, X. (2017). Nutritional status of children on the national school nutrition programme in Capricorn district, Limpopo province, South Africa. SAJCH South African Journal of Child Health, 11(1), 11–15. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCH.2017.v11i1.1124

  • Malongane, F., McGaw, L. J., & Mudau, F. N. (2017). The synergistic potential of various teas, herbs and therapeutic drugs in health improvement: a review. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 97(14). https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.8472