Recent News

15/07/23

Congratulations to Daniela Moore for winning the first place in the graduate research poster competition of the Frozen and Refrigerated Division at IFT 2023 for her work entitled "• The Effect of Using Coconut Oil (Cocos Nucifera), Avocado Paste (Persea Americana), and Pistachio (Pistacia Vera) in the Elaboration of a Chocolate Plant-Based Ice Cream"

01/07/2023

Congratulaions to Arnel Mariano for successfully defending his graduate thesis entitled "Encapsulation of Orange Pomace Polyphenols in Zein/Pectin Nanoparticles". Arnel, I wish you the best of luck in your next steps. 

03/31/22

This is the most recent paper from our research group on encapsulation of hesperitin, check it out! Congrats to Sarah for reaching this milestone.

https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.cpp.edu/doi/full/10.1002/jsfa.11874

02/02/22

Checkout the latest paper from our research group on he effect of Zein nanoparticles on the shelf-life of avocados. Big shoutout to Franciela!, congratualtions on your second paper.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154321001629

11/23/21

Congratulations to Elvis Garcia and Christianne Yapor for presenting posters at SCCUR 2021 on their respective ARI-HSI projects.

13/07/21

Congratulations to Elvis Garcia and Christianne Yapor for getting an ARI-HSI science fellowship each. Elvis will be working on identifying the characteristics that most appeal consumers in food products enriched with pomaces from different crops produced in California. Christianne will be working on comparing edible coatings to extend the shelf-life of avocados.

This month Sarah Caballero succesfully defended her thesis entitled: ENCAPSULATION OF ORANGE POMACE POLYPHENOL IN PEA PROTEIN-PECTIN COMPLEXES. 

Great job Sarah!

Sarah Caballero is the first author of the review article "Encapsulation and Delivery of Bioactive Citrus Pomace Polyphenols: A Review" published in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Link to the article 

Sarah Caballero and Elvis Garcia presented their research at the 2021 CSU Research Competition. The videos of the presentations can be found in the links below

Encapsualtion of Orange Pomace Polyphenols in Pea Protein-Pectin Complexes by Sarah Caballero

Using Consumer Feedback to Determine the Most Desired Attributes of Food Products Enriched with Orange Pomace by Elvis Garcia Jr.

Viral Shukla is the first author of the aticle "Optimization of Gluten-Free Pasta Formulation Enriched with Pulse Protein Isolates"

Link to the article 

Sarah and Elvis received the Award for Exemplary Oral Presentations in the 2021 CPP RSCA Confrence

https://www.cpp.edu/cppsrc/current-conference/awardees.shtml