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MANHATTAN, KS- Three Kansas State University food science graduate students, including Priyamvada Thorakkattu and Karthik Sajith Babu from India, were awarded first place and $8,000 in the National Dairy Council’s annual New Product Competition for Quick-Quark, a new drinkable dairy snack based on the German-style quark cheese.
The students, working in the university’s Food Science Institute, used whole milk, cream, milk protein concentrate and sweetened condensed milk, then fermented the ingredients with live cultures to produce a tart quark base with 30 percent daily value of calcium and 10 percent daily value of vitamin D.
In a resealable pouch with a 30-day shelf life, the university notes in a press release, Quick-Quark combines natural dairy ingredients with live cultures, which help aid digestion. Using real fruit, the students developed two different flavors: pina colada and acai blueberry.
Quick-Quark is dairy snack that can easily fit into a purse, tote or lunch bag, highlights usdairy.com, adding that “it’s a great snack for kids, too, since it uses real dairy, is flavored with fruit and has no preservatives.”
The product isn’t available in stores yet, but the students are looking for the right opportunity to start marketing Quick-Quark.