My Food Job Rocks!

Ep. 024 - A Passion For Extrusion with Deya Suarez Trujillo, Extrusion Engineer at Beyond Meat

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Synopsis

First off, I am loving the diversity of our guests recently. From different ages and genders from all over the world! The person we are interviewing today fits into this category. Deya is from Mexico and now works for the ever-trending Beyond Meat, where they produce meat substitutes that actually taste like real meat. If you do some research, their process making it (which is proprietary, and won’t be discussed too much here, sorry folks) is pretty fascinating. You’re going to learn a ton about an interesting process called extrusion, which is a very scientifically complex process that creates really cool products. Basically, you take raw materials, put them into a machine and it pops out a product… that was a horrible description… but if you just google the process on how hot dogs, protein bars, or even how puffed cereal is made, you’ll know what I’m talking about. I used to do some extrusion work in college and at my old job so it was nice to talk to somewhat of a kindred spirit. However, I think Deya take