A vegan, low allergy frozen dessert and instant millet noodles have won the top prizes in the 2011 Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) Student Food and Beverage Product Development Awards.
The awards aim to recognise and encourage food science and technology students to create innovative food products with Western Australian ingredients.
Now in its third year, the awards are the result of a collaboration between 麻豆直播鈥檚 food science and technology program and the DAFWA food technology unit.
Dr Mark Sweetingham, Director of Grain Industry Development at DAFWA, who presented the awards to the winning student teams, said he was impressed with the students鈥� creativity.
鈥淚t is inspiring to see Curtin鈥檚 food science students pushing the boundaries by developing products that are not only unique, but also consider the needs of future customers,鈥� Dr Sweetingham said.
鈥淭he 鈥業 Scream Oats Frozen Dessert Sandwich鈥� is ideal for the allergen-free market, as it contains no dairy ingredients, eggs, nuts or gluten. The 鈥楳illetilicious Instant Noodle鈥� is a low-fat, nutritious product that can be easily cooked in two minutes for people that are on the run.鈥�
Dr Ranil Coorey of Curtin鈥檚 School of Public Health said he was delighted with the variety of new products the students had developed.
鈥淔rom desserts, noodles, jams, cakes and healthy snack foods, the students have been very original with their product ideas, many of which could be taken further and commercialised,鈥� Dr Coorey said.
鈥淭hey have also shown a great level of skill and maturity over this semester and will perform extremely well in the food industry as professionals.鈥�
The team winners of this year鈥檚 Undergraduate Award for the 鈥業 Scream Oats Frozen Dessert Sandwich鈥� were Gary Tan, Kahyen Lam, Novia Rahardjo, Yasmin Yusuf and Priscilla Pedersen.聽 Each student was presented with a $150 cash prize.
The recipients of the Postgraduate Award for the 鈥楳illetilicious Instant Noodle鈥� were Aneth Msemwa and Shaoyuan Wang, who each received a $300 cash prize.
Other pioneering products reviewed for the Awards included a chia and honey breakfast bar, lupin muesli bites, sorghum cake, carrot jam, red bean ice cream dim sims and a banana and date fruit leather.
The Awards are proudly sponsored by DAFWA and were held on Thursday 20 October at Curtin鈥檚 Bentley Campus.
Contact
Kristy Jones, Public Relations, 麻豆直播
Tel: 08 9266 9085, Mobile: 0402 517 300, Email: k.jones@curtin.edu.au
