Andrea J. Tam, PhD

R&D Senior Food Scientist
Pepsico
Davis, CA, United States

Andrea is a PhD alumna from Dr. Juliana Bell’s lab at the University of California, Davis Food Science Department. Her project explores scalable, sustainable technologies to optimize processing strategies at pilot-scale to extract bioactive components from dairy waste and explore their biological properties. The goal of this work is to revalorize waste and produce a viable, health-promoting, commercial product.

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Presentation(s):

• Can lentil protein be used to structure healthier fat substitutes?

  Monday, April 28, 2025
  8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PST

• Extraction of bioactive oligosaccharides from pulse processing byproducts using subcritical water extraction: a proof-of-concept study

  Monday, April 28, 2025
  1:55 PM – 2:15 PM PST

• Development and characterization of lentil protein foam-templated oleogels as potential plant-based fat mimetics

  Tuesday, April 29, 2025
  11:15 AM – 11:35 AM PST

• Foam-templating strategy for structuring edible fat analogs using fractionated black bean protein and xanthan gum

  Tuesday, April 29, 2025
  5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST