Chinese scientist wins the highest international award in the field of frozen food research
July 25, 2022
Editor's note: Recently, the famous Chinese scientist Sun Dawen won the highest international award in the field of frozen food research-Frozen Food Foundation Frozen Research Award. This is the first time this prestigious award has been awarded to scientists outside the United States.
The International Food Protection Association, which has a history of more than 100 years, was established in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA in October 1911. For a long time, the International Food Protection Association has been awarding awards for food companies, organizations and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to enhancing food safety. The "Frozen Research Award of Frozen Food Foundation" is the only honor set up specifically for frozen food related research institutes, and is a lofty academic honor in the field of frozen food.
Sun Dawen, from Chaozhou, Guangdong, is currently a professor of food and biological systems engineering at the University of Dublin, Ireland, and is the first Chinese lifelong professor in Ireland. He has conducted many years of scientific research in the field of frozen food and has published dozens of high-level SCI papers on food freezing technology. Especially in the past decade, Sun Dawen has used a series of emerging technologies such as power ultrasound to accelerate and strengthen the food freezing process and has achieved a series of world-leading original achievements, which has promoted the technical progress of food freezing. It is reported that the technology he developed, by promoting the formation of ice cores in the freezing process and controlling the size and distribution of ice crystals, so that they are fine and evenly distributed, minimize the damage of ice crystals to the texture of frozen food, improve the frozen food quality.
