Singapore produces cookies for the elderly and the sick

According to reports, students in Singapore have used the knowledge they learned in the classroom to produce cookies that are suitable for the elderly and patients. The three small inventors are Tsai Yimin, Su Xiaojia and Li Zhaoxing. They are third-year students in the Diploma in Chemical Processing and Technology (Food Science and Technology) from the Singapore Institute of Technology.

They found that there was a lack of high-nutrition snacks suitable for the elderly in the market. Therefore, they decided to use specialty food processing techniques learned in the classroom to invent products suitable for the elderly. After continuous trials, they finally succeeded in making Orensure cookies, a food that is rich in nutrition, vitamins and minerals, and is ready for entry. Oren in Orensure refers to the East, and Sure refers to the production of pastry using the Ensure Life formula produced by Abbott. The taste of the biscuit sandwich layer has been specially selected for oriental traditional dessert ingredients such as black sesame, red dates, pumpkin, red bean paste, mung bean and so on. The students pointed out: “We are targeting the local consumer market and believe that these tastes are more acceptable to the people of the country.”

Liao Meiping, the teacher responsible for supervising them, revealed that this group of students is very serious. She is only responsible for supervision. The process of research and development is entirely up to the students.

The students are still improving Orensure and hope to find partners to bring it to market as soon as possible. In recent years, students of this diploma course have often invented and introduced novel and nutritious products.