Student Video Competition

Texture Technologies holds occasional video competitions for US and Canadian Universities to raise awareness, through the use of energetic video productions, of the importance of texture analysis to the food industry.

Congrats to our 2022 winners!

1st place: Univ MA, Hualu Zhou

2nd place: Univ Minnesota, Kenzie McClintic

3rd place: Florida A&M University, Mina Messiha

4th place: North Carolina State Univ, Wen Rivero Pena

5th place: Florida A&M University, Keb Mosley-Kellum

2016 winners include California State University Los Angeles’ Food Science Technology Program for “The Cultural Texture of Lunch,” The University of British Columbia’s Food, Nutrition and Health (FNH) program for their entry titled “Apples to Apples,” and The Brigham Young University’s Food Science Department for their entry titled “A Lot of Questions: The Texture Analyzer.”

In 2011, first prize went to 1st Prize: Kansas State University for “Texture Network Special Report.”

And in 2009, the winners were West Virginia University for “Food Texture Analysis at WVU,” Brigham Young University for “Waiting For The Cheese Cutter,” Kansas State University for “The Best Crunch,” Indiana University “A-R-Q-E,” Oregon State University for “The Quest For Perfect Texture,” and South Dakota State University and University of Arkansas received honorable mentions.

Prizes range from $500 to $2,000 (USD). Competition videos from past years can be viewed on our YouTube channel, TheTextureChannel.