Montemorelos, Mexico…[Comunicando/IAHFCO/IAD]
Nearly a month after a health food research lab was inaugurated on the campus of Montemorelos University in Mexico, nutrition students were experimenting with new products to enter into a national conference in Mexico.
Some students worked on a special pie that contains natural ingredients to help people with constipation, others worked on an alternative cheese substitute that provides the necessary nutrients and to benefit patients who suffer from diabetes and those with heart disease that can consume without problems. Other students prepared presentations on ways to better teach better nutrition to the population.
This activity fulfills one of our academic objectives of this semester, since the young people have to develop projects, provide presentations, come up with recipes and design a teaching strategy for the public in general during the semester, said Estela Nanguse, a health science professor at the university.
“This constitutes an excellent learning opportunity for our students, because they have all the tools for their development,” added Nanguse.
The research center, which was inaugurated Feb. 8, was built with the coordinated efforts of the Inter-American Health Food Company and Montemorelos University to provide new research on health foods to benefit its group of food companies, students and the body of the university, says Joel Zukovski, general manager of the IAHFCO.
Zukovski says the new research center in Montemorelos has a greater range than the other factories which are exclusively in the work in the industry. “This one is geared to education,”he says.
“Montemorelos University plays an important part because as it offers different careers in the field of health sciences, it has the human material for the development of the industries. In terms of IAD’s Health Food Company we have food factories in different countries and we chose Mexico to become part of this team,” added Zukovski.
The Center has two offices and has four research laboratory rooms, a lab for the food technology, one for vegetarian cooking, one for microbiology of food and one for food analysis. The center itself is named after the missionary Paul Allred, a visionary in the production of healthy foods and pioneer in the production of soy products in north Mexico and the division territory.
The Inter-American Health Food Company (IAHFC) produces, sells and distributes health foods through its 18 branches and warehouses located in the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico and South America, within the territory of the Inter-American Division. Its number one product produced is texturized soy protein which is sold to the public and businesses. IAHFC products are prepared by dedicated students and generates financial resources to support activities of the different programs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
