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Published on: 1/1/2008
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IN A LABORATORY-CUM-KITCHEN in Babcock Hall, Kathy Nelson, a researcher at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, measures ingredients on a digital scale before throwing them in a mixing bowl.
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That's where Kathy Nelson comes in. Before joining the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, she spent ten years developing desserts at Pillsbury, and her role is to be part researcher and part foodie, creating new products that will be pleasing to consumers.
In 2001, Nelson turned her attention to improving the PKU diet.
She began experimenting with GMP, but her ï¬rst attempt at a GMP-fortiï¬ed food, a loaf of bread, failed.
" The more protein I added, the worse the bread turned out.
The loaf would just collapse," she says.
During the next three years, however, Nelson created crackers, fruit leather, chocolate and strawberry pudding, and two types of drinks using GMP.
A small sample of PKU patients are currently testing those foods, replacing their amino acid drinks with GMP foods for a four-day trial.
Ten patients have completed the trials, and early results have conï¬rmed that GMP foods re safe and well-accepted.