C.W. Brabender® Instruments, Inc. has partnered with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for a snack food formulation project that will culminate in a live food extrusion demonstration at the 2014 Institute of Food Technologists Food Expo.
Kristen McCarty, CWB food laboratory manager, has been working with UNL's Devin on this project for his students to compete in teams to create a tasty, easy to make snack, produced on Brabender®’s single screw extruder that can be created during a live food extrusion demonstration at the 2014 IFT in New Orleans June 21-24.
The students are submitting ideas that met the simple criteria of being a formulation for a snack product of any food grade material that can be made on the company's single screw extruder and be demonstrated live in the booth n the show floor with samples of the product to be handed out directly to observers at the show.
C.W. Brabender® contributed a food grade, single screw, grooved barrel extruder and a cutting device plus any other equipment that might be needed for product formulation. C.W. Brabender® will host the students for this year’s IFT and provide them an in-booth forum to explain their product, formulation, and steps in development as a means of giving UNL recognition.