Stephanie Wong, food science student

Summary: Stephanie Wong discusses her experience as a food science co-op student at Puratos Canada and why she enjoys being in the co-op program.  

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Text: Stephanie Wong 
Bachelor of Science in Food Science, 2019
Co-op Student
Stephanie Wong: My name is Stephanie and I am a fifth year food science co-op student currently finishing up a placement at Puratos Canada.

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At Puratos, I essentially help develop the food products you would see
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at the grocery store.

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So we'll have really interesting products like developing a new flavoured cake
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or a clean label cake solution.

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We'll come up with recipes using our technology
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and we'll do some testing in the bakery.

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After baking we will evaluate the cake,
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take some measurements
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and then of course taste the cake.

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I've done some projects with over a thousand different cupcakes which I got to test and try every one of them.

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The majority of my time is in the bakery
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I'm always doing test baking, 
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I'm running different experiments just to see what different ingredients do in cakes

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in order to create the delicious cake
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you see in grocery stores.

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In order to help make a product a success we have to take some
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measurements in order to compare different tests.

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For example one of my favorite equipments is the texture analyzer
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because it mimics a mouth in order to see how much force it takes to compress
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a piece of bread or a piece of cake
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and this gives us an idea about how consumers would perceive our product.

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I love food product development because you're essentially getting paid
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to play with food.

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You're always surrounded by people who are passionate about food
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and you really get to be creative.

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You never go hungry,
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there's always a lot of projects happening so you get to try all different types of foods
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and if anything, you can always eat your experiment.

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Why I like the co-op program is that it gives you real work experience and it really showed me where my passions lie.

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It's also a really great tool in order to make new connections and it really helps you
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find a job after employment because in fact,
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six out of the seven people in research and development at Puratos are from the University of Guelph

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Text: Improve Life.

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