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State Fair Adds New Nutritious & Delicious Category

Posted on May 4, 2010

Do you have a favorite nutritious family recipe?  Now you, too, can bring home a Blue Ribbon from The Ohio State Fair!  The newest addition to the Fair's Creative Arts competition is a category called 'Nutritious and Delicious.'  Students affiliated with the Ohio Association Family and Consumer Sciences (OAFCS) at Ohio University devoted Fall and Winter quarter activities to creating this new Ohio State Fair division.  Their research incorporated nutrition, food safety, food science and food product development.  The goal is to nutritionally improve family favorite recipes while maintaining excellence in the creative art of food preparation. OAFCS is dedicated to the health and welfare of Ohio's families.

Click here to check out all the 'Nutritious and Delicious' categories and entry information.  Anyone age 11 and older is elgible to compete.  Deadline for entry is June 20.