Behind the scenes with our food students at Harper Adams

24 July 2026

At Harper Adams our food students have access to state of the art specialist facilities and are assesed through an innovative combination of theory and real-world practice, setting them up for a successful career at the end of their studies.

We caught up with first-year BSc (Hons) Food Industry Techinical Professional Degree Apprenticeship students Courtney Hutton and Olivia Weston who told us more about what they've been working on.

Olivia said: "We're in the Regional Food Academy conducting a benchmarking assessment for our food formulation and ingredients module as part of our first-year and we've been doing various testing, so we've just done a sensory panel.

"We've conducted various tests for physical characteristics such as PH, texture analysis, colorimetry and available water."

You can watch their full interview below:

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Earlier this year we also caught up with our BSc (Hons) Food Science and Innovation students who gave us a taste of the products they have been working on as part of their studies.

Check out the delicious bites they've been crafting in the video below: