The scientific activities of NUFT are aimed at developing the theoretical foundations of food technologies, their intensification and optimization, creating new progressive technologies and high-performance equipment, systems and means for the mechanization of labor-intensive processes and industries, new energy-saving equipment and rational energy use systems, as well as improving the organization and increasing the efficiency of food and processing enterprises.
In accordance with the main directions of scientific and innovative activity in Ukraine, the following are priorities for the scientific schools of NUFT:
• development of modern energy and resource-saving technologies and nanotechnologies for the production of high-quality and safe food products;
• development of scientific and practical principles for creating highly efficient technologies, processes, and equipment for food, biotechnological, machine-building, and packaging and printing industries;
• development of modern packaging systems;
• development of automated control systems and information technologies for decision-making in production and educational activities;
• development of fundamentally new highly efficient microbial synthesis technologies;
• ecologization of production in the food and processing industry;
• the most important fundamental problems of chemistry and the development of chemical technologies;
• innovative directions for the development of hospitality industry enterprises;
• development of new scientific principles for increasing the efficiency of enterprises in the food and processing industry.