food production and development facilities

The food technology centre within the academy offers first class food processing facilities, including:

• Dairy production equipment
• Brewery
• Baking equipment
• Meat and poultry processing
• Propagation unit for start-up business
• Sensory analysis facilities
• Moisture and water activity meters
• Viscometer
• Texture analyser

The sensory assessment of food products using objective and quantitative methods can be critical to market success, many food and drink businesses now require the sensory assessment of products as a matter of course. Such assessment is core to understanding a food product in its own right. It is also used for benchmarking products against similar products, such as those made by competitors.

The Regional Food Academy's Taste Panel and Focus Group facilities are available to you and may be used by you to undertake your own sensory evaluation, or we can carry out the work for you.

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