Transcript of the video, "What Is Food Science"
Total time: 3:17
Music introduction with photo of a college-aged woman and text, "What is Food Science Anyway?"
Eric Shinsato: "Food Technologist, how can you describe that?"
Brittnay Klimstra: "A Food Technologist can be any number of different things."
Conrad Rebello: "I am a Senior Food Research Scientist."
Robyn Jones: "Consumer Safety Officer."
Klimstra: "All of them are fun that I've encountered so far."
Shinsato: "A food technologist is involved in basically every food item
that you would see, eat or think about eating."
Klimstra: "A lot of misconceptions about Food Scientists are that we work
in the lab--that we're lab rats and always where white coats."
Rebello: "I get paid to eat. How bad can that be?"
Klimstra: "I am a food nerd."
Henry Chin: "When you think of food you think of something simple and appears
magically on the supermarket shelves. As a matter of fact there is quite
a bit of magic, although it's scientifically based magic."
Mitchell Duffy: "When I tell people that I'm a food scientist they really
don't know what that means."
Jones: "We're keeping your food supply safe."
Chin: "A lot of times it's solving a puzzle whether it's in an area of product
development or an area of analysis."
Rebello: "I wanted to work in an organization where I can actually see the
products of my labor out on the grocery store shelves."
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Rebello: "In my dad-to-day job at Cambell's I'm responsible for actually
creating soups that the consumers would like -- that appeal to the consumers."
Duffy: "Part of my job is coming up with new products, new ideas, everybody
wants the brand new thing. Pudding in a cup, that's mine."
Chin: "Once you
get into Food Science it's something that grabs you."
Shinsato: "They pay you to play around with food."
Valerie Wayland: "It's constantly a learning experience and I enjoy it and
that's the beauty about the food industry is that you can
take it anywhere you want from the farm line to the grocery store."
Amanda LaCoste: "See the coolest part is that you get to eat your science
experiements."
Rebecca Lopez-Garcia:
"There's many options out there for food scientists. You do not end up in
the lab by yourself. I go mainly to developing countries and I help their
industry become more competitive. You get to meet all kinds of people. It's
a great job."
Klimstra: "Food scientists are innovators in the food world. We work with
hersey, we work with nestlle, we work with all the companies that make everything
delicious."
LaCoste: "You take a fresh soy bean and I have to make that look and taste
like a hot dog. How the heck do you do that? That's what I'll do."
Jones : "The food industry is always a growing, growing field."
Chin: "No pun intended."
Duffy: "My day is different everyday. I like to be creative. It keeps me
thinking."
Shinsato: "What is my favorite food?"
Klimstra: "Pizza."
Wayland: "Ice cream (laughs)."
Chin: "Anything with cheese on it."
Jones: "Pizza."
LaCoste: "When you see that product on the shelf and you hear people talking
about the product, that's awesome."
Klimstra: "There's so many opportunities that you never get bored. We are
the only science that has fun everyday."
Rebello: "You'll be amazed at how cool, how cool the work actually is.
And to top it off you get paid to do it."
LaCoste: "The best part about my job is that I can work on things scientifically
but be creative doing it."
Shinsato: "Pretty much that's about it. (Laughs) In a nutshell."
End of video.