ʻXOveTʼ, a food product created by students from the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Ecotrophelia Europe 2012 Innovation award

Food products made by the students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon awarded by Ecotrophelia in 2012.
Food products made by the students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon awarded by Ecotrophelia in 2012.
Research
(06/11/2012)

XOveT, a powdered food product created with anchovy bones, made by the students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon, of the UBʼs Master in Development and Innovation in Food, received the Special Innovation Mention Award during the competition Ecothropelia Europe, which took place on 21st-22nd October within the International SIAL Food Fair in Paris.

Food products made by the students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon awarded by Ecotrophelia in 2012.
Food products made by the students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon awarded by Ecotrophelia in 2012.
Research
06/11/2012

XOveT, a powdered food product created with anchovy bones, made by the students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon, of the UBʼs Master in Development and Innovation in Food, received the Special Innovation Mention Award during the competition Ecothropelia Europe, which took place on 21st-22nd October within the International SIAL Food Fair in Paris.

The students Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon, guided by the lecturers Joan Pere Bosch and Francesc Guardiola, from the Department of Nutrition and Bromatology at the UB, presented the product named XOveT and its different food applications, for example: to prepare sauces in order to season salads or as a flavouring in several products (snacks, Dry Martini, etc.). The product is got from the anchoviesʼ bones, which are previously got from a fillet of anchovy.

Last March, the award-winners won the first prize of Ecotrophelia Spain 2012, a competition organized by the Spanish Food and Drink Industry Federation (FIAB) to honour those innovative food products which take into account ecology. Crequis, the awarded product, are brown rice cakes with anchovy bones powder from LʼEscala (Girona). The final of this competition, eleven of the twenty-two final products were presented by Spanish universities students, took place in the Alicia Foundation, in the Món Sant Benet complex (Sant Fruitós de Bages, Barcelona). Later, a FIAB committee selected the team composed by Mireia Godoy and Anna Simon as the group to represent Spain in Ecotrophelia Europe, the European final in which their product XOveT has been awarded.