Ricardo Bressani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Guatemalan food scientist
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Place of Birth: Guatemala City, Guatemala Department, Guatemala
About Ricardo Bressani
- Cesar Ricardo Bressani Castignoli (28 September 1926 – 30 January 2015) was a Guatemalan food scientist.
- Born in Guatemala City, he received a bachelor of science in chemical engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1948.
- In 1951, he received a master's degree from Iowa State University.
- In the same year, he returned to Guatemala where he worked at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, INCAP.
- In 1952, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study biochemistry at Purdue University, where he obtained his Ph.D.
- in 1956.
- Afterwards, he reincorporated to the INCAP, this time as the Head of the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Food until 1993. In 1983, Dr.
- Bressani became one of the 42 founding members of the Third World Academy of Sciences, known today as The World Academy of Sciences.
- In the 1990s, Dr.
- Bressani was the editor-in-chief of the journal Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición.
- He was also an associate editor of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin.
- In 1992, he arrived to the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, and in 1998, he founded the Center for the Studies of Food Science and Technology.
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- Bressani wrote more than 300 publications in many scholarly international journals.Dr.
- Bressani performed an investigation on practical solutions to nutritional problems within the population of Guatemala and the rest of Central America.
- His experiments lead to the creation and production of Incaparina, a nutritional supplement based on a mixture of corn flour, soy flour, cottonseed meal, and Torula yeast.
- This supplement was intended to be primarily served in the form of gruel.
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