NC State students create award-winning kefir beverage
A team of graduate students from North Carolina State University won first place in the National Dairy Council New Product Competition. They students received the $8,000 first prize during the Institute of Food Technology’s annual meeting in Chicago in July. Teams from Penn State University and Ohio State University were awarded prizes of $5,000 and $3,000 for second and third place, respectively.
“We’re very excited and honored to win the New Product Competition,” said NCSU student Kyle McLean. “We worked very hard on it. It’s great to be acknowledged and see our hard work pay off.”