Homegrown choc spread cleans up
A nutritious version of Nutella has earned six Stellenbosch University food science students second place in the International Union of Food Science and Technology's Food Science Students Fighting Hunger product development competition. The award was presented to Cenette Bezuidenhout, Carin-Marie Engelbrecht, Nicholas Grobbelaar, Taryn Harding, Shannon Howell and Megan Kleyn at the IUFoST World Congress of Food Science and Technology in Dublin on Tuesday.Their S'cool Beans sandwich spread tastes like chocolate and hazelnuts, and is crammed with highly nutritious sweet potato and sugar beans, but with less than half the sugar of traditional chocolate spreads.The students' aim is to get the spread into school feeding schemes, where it will have the most impact."That's our dream - to get it to the people who need it the most. But, of course, we'd love to see it on supermarket shelves as well, as all children will benefit from it," said Engelbrecht...
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