Department of Food Science

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Maple Valley Creamery – UMass Food Science Ice Cream Competition Winners announced!

Congratulations to Team “Vanilla Chai” on their winning flavor concept in this year’s Maple Valley Creamery – UMass Food Science Ice Cream Competition. This year we had six teams present their unique flavor concepts to Maple Valley Creamery and a judging panel of eight culinary professionals. Maple Valley Creamery and the judges were impressed with all of the team’s submission, and ultimately selected the flavor that was the most ready to move into production. See picture of the winning team: “Vanilla Chai” - Ryan Claudino, Dietrich Pultinas, Adam Salhaney, Constantinos Argyrou, Amélia Vega. 

Congratulations to our fan favorite winners this year team “Blueberry Lemon Bar”- Team members: Joy Aberg, Aanal Bhavsar, Kristen Buermeyer, Austin Cain & Emily Kelly.

Thanks to Maple Valley Creamery, faculty and students for their support and congratulations to all the teams for a great competition!

22News ; News & Media Relations May 01, 2019

UMass food scientists garner a mélange of sweet victories

From young researchers to experienced alumni—UMass Food Scientists continues to be leaders in their field

• Professor Guodong Zhang is being honored with the 2019 Young Scientist Research Award from the American Oil Chemists’ Society 
• Alumnus Noel Anderson, a member of the College of Natural Sciences Advisory Board, has been elected president-elect of the Institute of Food Technologists 
• University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor David Julian McClements and Professor Hang Xiao, both among the most highly cited researchers in the world, have won awards for their contributions to food science from the Institute of Food Technologists 
• Professor Eric Decker, head of food science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been elected president of the American Oil Chemists’ Society

College of Natural Sciences News. April 18, 2019