RSNZ+Awarded+Fellowship

Welcome to my RSNZ page Profile Prue Rehu ** ** Botany **** Downs Secondary College ** Prue Rehu has always been keen to look at food for the family, the consumer and food product development, in ensuring students gain appropriate knowledge and skills to enable them to make sensible food choices. With support from R & D staff at Frucor, a leading Australasian drinks company and the second largest non-alcoholic drinks company in New Zealand. , Prue will be able to work along side technologists at the Manukau site and apply hands-on knowledge of product development from initial idea through to launch. To understand how a food product is developed and the key stages involved, Prue will be able to take part in aspects of ideation, formulation, sensory evaluation, testing and trialling, batch production, final production and launch. Through her fellowship year, Prue will investigate the development of two new products, to be tested and trialled and launched mid 2009. This will follow with Project X, an opportunity for Prue to be part of a team to consider innovative ideas for a possible new product. Prue has already undertaken an induction programme into the variety of management areas within the company to establish the role that each plays in the product development process. Her hands-on approach has seen her prepare formulations of the new products to examine acidity levels and colour development. Prue has also set up sensory trials and evaluated responses. The next phase will be to view the batching process in the factory and the launch of Frucor’s new products.
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 * Think it-Drink it: Technology hands-on **
 * Hosted by Frucor Beverages Limited, Manukau, Auckland **

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