Dairy Evaluation Team

After 34 years, ISU again has a Dairy Products Evaluation team, under the guidance of new associate professor in FSHN, Dr. Stephanie Clark. Undergraduate and graduate students are honing their skills in dairy sensory evaluation, looking for subtle differences in the flavor, appearance, and texture of dairy products. Team members find quality defects in cheddar cheese, cottage cheese, milk, butter, vanilla ice cream and strawberry yogurt, all the while using the correct word to describe the defect and assign a value.

Dairy Products Evaluation team

 

After two months of hard work, Dr. Stephanie Clark, the team's coach, and the team members, Jun Lian Yeap, Jody Lohse, Sakthi Vijayakumar, Josh Carter, Jennifer Halstead and Babu Chinnasamy headed over to Glenview,IL to compete with 15 other schools from all over the country. The team placed 4th in team all products and was third place in cottage cheese, cheddar cheese and butter category during the 88th Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Contest on Oct, 31 2009.

Congratulations to the new ISU Dairy Products Evaluation Team!

 

ISU Dairy Products Evaluation Team returns, places in national contest

- ISU News release 11/17/09