Main Contact Person Mavis McRae
Department Prairie Research Kitchen
General Category Protein food processing, Packaging, Consumer acceptability, Assessment of the safety and nutritional value of protein foods, Sociocultural factors related to protein foods
Infrastructure Prairie Research Kitchen, Centrifuge, Rotary Evaporator, Water bath processing (Sous vide), Sonifier, Blast Freezer, Smoking Equipment, Programmable Curing Chambers for charcuterie and fermentation projects, Food Service and Household Cooking equipment, Pasta Extruder, Rationale Combi-ovens, Merry Chef Oven, Vacuum packaging with modified atmosphere capabilities, Incubation Chamber, research kitchens, analytical testing, bench scale prototyping, culinary expertise, food science
Primary Production and Harvesting High throughout phenotyping, Convolutional Neural Networks (capable of recognizing plants and plant features), image dataset analysis
Protein Food Processing Prototype and ingredient blends and utilization of plant and animal protein for industry, protein extraction, recipe development, co-product utilization, advanced manufacturing, 3D printing for prototype parts (metal, plastics), waste water processing
Packaging sustainable packaging partnerships (make the food to test the packaging), conduct shelf life studies, modified packaging
Transportation and Distribution electric vehicle, autonomous electric farm vehicles
Marketing market research (students), business plan development, communications and graphic design, recipes, food photography
Consumer Acceptability Consumer taste tests, sensory evaluation, sample preparation, focus groups
Assessment of the Safety and Nutritional Value of Protein Foods Food safety testing/training, clinical sample preparation, database nutritional analysis (mostly for estimate during prototyping), phenotyping, product development
Sociocultural Factors Related to Protein Foods Indigenous food products, nutrition, food security, training
Other machine learning, robotics, big data management, high performance computing, building efficiency (storage): program development, data base development, applications, industry prototyping
