 Hello, my name is Delaney Myers and I'm a professor at the North Dakota State University and I'm here to talk about a nutritious cereal bar that has been developed by the North Dakota State University. This cereal bar was created by a product development team at North Dakota State and it's called Onglog. Onglog means delicious in Mongolian and the fact that you are using a Mongolian name for this bar will have more importance as I discuss this further. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, FAL, awarded in the SU's product development team a grant to produce and ship a nutritious cereal bar to third world countries, particularly areas that have particularly problematic issues with malnutrition and particularly with children. So what the purpose of this cereal bar is to do is to help alleviate some of these issues, particularly with middle school children in third world countries. If you look at the map, what you can see is that there are some areas of the world that have particular significant problems with this. When you look at areas of South America, Asia and Africa, you can see where there's serious malnutrition upwards of over 20% malnutrition and even in some areas over 35% malnutrition. What the UN and others are now calling this as food security, how do we ensure that the people everywhere have a secure food supply and not only by food security, we're talking about availability of food, we're talking about the safety of food and the nutrition of having nutritious food and this product is one that focuses on providing a nutritious food as part of food security. What is this bar? This bar is composed of several ingredients. One is a fortified cereal blend. By fortification, we're talking about cereals that have additional vitamins and minerals added to them. These vitamins would be B vitamins such as thiamine, niacin, riboflavin and folic acid. These are all B vitamins which are important for energy and also for cell development and also iron which is a very important nutrient as well for cell development, for energy and also for the immune system. In addition to that, it has high fiber. We know that fiber plays an important role in the body in preventing various types of digestive problems, digestive diseases and so forth and so we know that in addition to the energy that's important in food fiber is also a very important component so we wanted to keep that in mind when developing the cereal bar. Third is the pulse blend. These pulses are very important, navy bean, pinto bean and yellow pea along with lentils. Now this blend provides us a source of micro nutrients particularly zinc and selenium and I'll talk more about that later how important these micro nutrients are. And then the brown sugar corn syrup, peanut butter and chocolate. These are primarily for sensory purposes. The corn syrup is for binding, combining all the cereals together, the pulse blend, high fiber cereal and also fortified cereals. The brown sugar for sweetness and also for flavor. And then the peanut butter and chocolate for flavor as well as the peanut butter also acting as a binder as well. We know that as scientists that we can make the most nutritious product that we can make but if the consumer and in this case middle school children would not be interested in consuming it it would not really meet our goals. So in addition to the nutrition side it's also an important sensory side to make sure that it is one that school children like. This cereal bar is a good source of calcium. Calcium is very good in the development of the bones and teeth and obviously a key part of development. So school children this would be very important for school children. In addition to that there are good sources of zinc and selenium. As I mentioned earlier these are very high amounts in the pulse blend which is why we added the pulses. Selenium and zinc are very important in cell development in development of the body and particularly in the immune system. They are known to prevent a variety of different diseases and this is very important for young children in their stages of development to prevent a variety of different diseases that can occur or they can be subject to and so these nutrients would help prevent that. In addition to that iron which is also very important in preventing diseases as well as energy which is also obviously very important in development. So these nutrients that we are adding are the key nutrients in development in development of the bones providing energy for growth as well as preventing immunity or preventing disease while the young people are growing. In addition to that is cholesterol free. That's an additional nutrient that's not needed in this case and so we think that's a value. It's low in sodium. We're very concerned about the amount of sodium that people are consuming even children. So we're trying to keep the amount of the level of sodium low even though we have we believe a very good tasting product. And then again we as I mentioned a good source of dietary fiber which is also good for development preventing the prevention of dietary diseases. The bar was developed by a group of scientists who came together looking for a product that they wanted to develop that would have good nutrition but the question is how would they do it and then how would they put this product together. One scientist who was from Mongolia came up with this idea of a nutritious cereal bar that would meet the needs of school children where he's from in Mongolia which has a serious problem with malnutrition of school children. So the idea therefore came about that way. The question is then how do you formulate it how do you put it together and so the ideas of using fortified cereals and which cereals did you use became very important. How do you get those nutrients into the food using the cereals that were chosen high fiber cereals that were also fortified as well as the right pulse for it to get the zinc and selenium and calcium levels particularly zinc and selenium. Processing, how do you put it together? It's one thing to put it together in a kitchen but how do you make large batches of meat with large numbers of bars and how do you cut them to the right size and make sure that the right amount of nutrients are in each bar. So very much involved as far as the equipment and process. And then sensory. As I previously mentioned it's not enough to make a product that's very nutritious that has to taste good but it's when I only talk about flavor you're talking about also texture having the right texture so with the right bite so it feels good in the mouth when it's being chewed. As well as crunchiness doesn't have a crunchy mouth feel as well. So all of those key components of heart sensory so it was a very involved process the scientists put a lot of work into this and we believe that the bar that was has been developed meets the needs of not only the nutrition but also the sensory properties that children will like to consume. The future of the cereal bar now that we've developed this bar we'd like to plan to go into full scale processing. We hope to develop these bars and to package them and then ship them to places where there's an nourishment problem particularly in where we're going to start as mind-blowing. That's our first test market and the first place we're first going to put the product to try it out to see if it works and if it does and if the consumers and those being the school children like that bar and it meets those needs we plan to move it to other parts of the world as well where there's particularly under nourishment issues and so we're very proud of what we've done we believe that we have developed a product that meets the needs of school children and meeting the needs of this whole issue of food security so with that I thank you for your attention and I would welcome any questions that you might have.