What is the Frozen Dessert Center?
Founded in 2012, the Frozen Dessert Center (FDC), is housed within the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences at UW–Madison. We draw expertise from professors, researchers and industry professionals that have dedicated decades to better understanding frozen desserts.
Our mission is to support the frozen dessert industry with technical expertise, to promote and push research forward and to provide learning experiences for all types of students. We do this by offering the following services:
- Development – Legal products that meet the clients’ desired performance and functionality needs.
- Trials – Small- and large-scale mix and frozen product trials in our pilot plants or in the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant
- Analysis – Testing methods designed to better understand the attributes of your unique product
- Education – Development of resource materials to educate the public and industry about all types of frozen desserts, manufacturing practices and food safety
- Extension – Several short courses covering the manufacturing, food safety and chemistry of frozen desserts and other dairy foods through the CALS Outreach Service
Resources
Services focused on frozen desserts in the areas of manufacturing, sensory and microstructure analyses, product development and quality control.
Services focused on frozen deserts in the areas of manufacturing, sensory and microstructure analyses, product development and quality control.
FDC Archives
| 2025 Conference Presentations | 2024 Conference Presentations | 2023 Conference Presentations |
| Antonopoulos, Stavroula Coupland, John Dettmers, Daniel Freitag, Frederick Lewis, Grace Price, Jodi Rogus-Pulia, Nicole | Dye, Darin & Kouroutsidis, Pavlos Hartel, Richard Haseloff, Marianne Kellerman, Brian Miller, Liz Rankin, Scott Spence, Charles Vinay, Elena Wagner, Roberta | Atik, Didem Sozeri Berry, Donna Choi, Christopher Hartel, Richard Kapoor, Monica Nielsen, Craig Rankin, Scott Scholten, Elke |
| 2022 Conference Presentations | 2021 Conference Presentations | 2020 Conference Presentations |
| Gonfiantini, Samantha & Otto, Abbey Mattucci, Stephanie Reindl, Douglas Sand, Claire: Future Packaging Sand, Claire: Sustainable Packaging Them, Lars | Alvarez, Graciela Berry, Donna Lewis, Grace Lindsay, Mark Martinez-Monteagudo, Sergio Rankin, Scott Rathnakumar, Kaavya Sipple, Lauren | Daw, Emily Freire, Dieyckson Leslie, Sarah Rakes, Phil Thiel, Abbey Vancrey, John VanWees, Sam |