Offally good ready meal scoops gold for Harper Adams students

NINE students from Harper Adams University in Shropshire have scooped gold in the UK finals of a Dragons’ Den-style competition to find the best eco-innovative food product. The More Than Meat Pies team from the university near Newport won the British heat of the Ecotrophelia: European Food Innovation Student Awards with its ready meal offal pie, aptly named A Hearty Meal. Along with a £2,000 cash prize, the team will also receive one-year Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST) membership and a number of Elsevier food science publications. The team will now go forward as the