FACILITIES

The Dough and Roll Studio provides facilities for food product development and sensory evaluation, using the experimental kitchen with bakery capability and sensory evaluation booths.

The Food Analysis Laboratory provides facilities for students to gain experience in the fundamentals of food chemistry and analysis. The laboratory is equipped with a Kjeldahl digestor, microwave furnace, fat analysers and water activity meter. Equipment include high performance liquid chromatograph, inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer, gas chromatograph, bomb calorimeter, fatty acid analyser, and spectrophotometers.

The Food Creation Laboratory has facilities for development, evaluation and application of food ingredients and flavours such as beverages, confectioneries, culinary and dairy products. Equipment include texture analyser, rapid viscosity analyser for starch and dough analysis, water activity meter, colorimeter, viscometer and vapour pressure osmometer.

The Food Processing Laboratory houses a wide range of food processing and packaging equipment including state-ofthe-art pilot plant facilities. These include spray dryer, can seamers, pasteuriser and steriliser, homogeniser, ultra-filtration units, water vapour transmission rate detector, modified atmosphere packaging machine, headspace analyser, video can seam monitor system. Students will gain hands-on training experience in food processing, preservation and packaging.