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S’coolBeans, a nutritious chocolate spread
containing sweet potato and sugar beans,
came second in the international Food Science
Students Fighting Hunger product development competition. The low-cost spread is the
brain child of a group of food science students from Stellenbosch University (SU). They
travelled to Dublin in Ireland to compete
against nine other teams from Costa Rica, Singapore, Indonesia and South Africa.
The competition was held at the 18th World
Congress of Food Science and Technology of
the International Union of Food Science and
Technology (IUFOST). It encourages undergraduate students to use their knowledge and
skills to develop innovative food products to
fight hunger.
S’coolBeans is a low cost chocolate and hazelnut flavoured spread made from fermented
red speckled beans (also known as sugar
beans) and sweet potato. It potentially provides a good way by which parents can sneak
more vegetables into their children’s meals.
S’coolBeans was developed in 2014 by
Cenette Bezuidenhout, Carin-Marie Engelbrecht, Nicholas Grobbelaar, Taryn Harding,