Students' Dairy Creation 'Mooofins' Wins National Competition

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When you think of national championships and Penn State defeating teams from Iowa State and Ohio State universities, you think football, volleyball or wrestling, right?

But the Food Science Product Development Team?

Well you can add muffins — or rather Mooofins — to footballs, volleyballs and wrestling mats as props to a student squad title. This time it wasn't the NCAA that awarded the mantle of excellence, instead it was the American Dairy Research Institute.

At the recent American Dairy Science Association meeting in Indianapolis, Mooofins were named the best of the best in the Dairy Research Institute's New Product Competition. The top three teams in the competition came to the meeting to find out whether they had earned first, second or third place.

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