Optimization and scale up of prototype protein snack cookies

Simply for Life（SFL）是一家总部位于新玩法的公司，在加拿大各地拥有36家诊所，是健康教育、制定科学饮食计划以及通过营养和方便健康的食物选择来管理和控制健康问题的领导者。他们有零售店，提供健康的产品，在当地制造，并纳入他们的营养计划。目前，在他们的营养计划中提供的零食选择不符合高标准的营养含量或质量，简单的生活努力。加拿大最聪明的厨房，位于荷兰学院的加拿大烹饪学院，是一个烹饪创意发电站，在食品产品开发，食品科学和营销的专业知识。Simply for Life曾与CSK合作，开发一种方便的高蛋白饼干，不含任何额外的防腐剂，并将其纳入营养计划。SFL渴望扩张，开始创建自己的产品线的举动是他们目前商业模式的转变，也是推动公司销售所需的方向。在由Engage赠款资助的初始项目中，CSK和SFL开发了三种新的高蛋白零食饼干。这些原型是苹果碎，墨西哥巧克力和花生酱巧克力片。在CSK进行的感官评价中，每个原型的得分都比SFL产品线中的产品更有利。Engage Plus工作的目标是通过与SFL和合作包装商合作，将这些原型带到下一个开发阶段，以扩大全面生产中的台式配方。

Simply for Life (SFL), a New Brunswick based company with 36 clinics across Canada, is a leader in health education, developing science based dietary plans and managing and controlling health issues through nutrition and convenient, healthy food choices. They have retail stores that offer healthy products, made locally that are incorporated into their nutritional plans. Currently, the snack food options available within their nutrition plans do not meet the high standards of nutritional content or quality that Simply for Life strives for. Canada's Smartest Kitchen, located within Holland College's Culinary Institute of Canada, is a culinary creativity powerhouse that has expertise in food product development, food science and marketing. Simply for Life had approached CSK about a collaboration to develop a convenient, high protein cookie without any additional preservatives to be incorporated into their nutrition plans. SFL is eager to expand, and the move to start creating their own line of products is a shift in their current business model and a direction that is needed to drive sales for the company. In the initial project, funded by an Engage grant, CSK and SFL developed three new high protein snack cookies. Those prototypes were an apple crumble, Mexican chocolate, and peanut butter chocolate chip. In sensory evaluations conducted at CSK, each prototype scored more favorably than products currently in SFL product line. The goal of the Engage Plus work is to take those prototypes to the next stage of development by working with SFL and a co-packer to scale up the bench top formulations in full production.