{"id":77990,"date":"2018-04-17T17:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=77990"},"modified":"2020-01-16T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:49:09","slug":"maui-mfix-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/17\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kombucha tea, sunflower oil and manjookies win top awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition.jpg\" alt=\"group of people\" width=\"676\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-78000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition-300x88.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three innovative food businesses and entrepreneurs walked away with top awards at the Maui Food Industry X-celerator\u2019s pitch event in March at the Maui Food Innovation Center at University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Maui College.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77999\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition-leigh-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition-leigh-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/maui-mfix-pitch-competition-leigh.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maui Jun Company owner Taryn Leigh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Award winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top presenter was Maui Jun Company owner Taryn Leigh, who pitched her delicious and unique &ldquo;raw honey sweetened&rdquo; kombucha teas as a healthy beverage alternative.<\/li>\n<li>Second place winner was Pacific Biodiesel\u2019s Maiden <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Naturals pitched by Joy Galatro, who introduced Maui\u2019s &ldquo;first to market&rdquo; all-natural sunflower oil targeting chefs, restaurateurs and food enthusiasts.<\/li>\n<li>Third place winner Maui Manjookies\u2019 Jannelle Fukuoka, enthusiastically pitched her hand crafted &ldquo;cookie-manju-pie&rdquo; pastries that appeal to all ages as a &ldquo;must&rdquo; omiyage or gift throughout <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, Japan and the mainland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Event participants are given the opportunity to showcase their unique products and network with local investors, business industry leaders and potential consumers. Now in its fifth year, the pitch event is the culmination of an eight-week training program that focuses on Maui\u2019s growing demand for new and value-added food products.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maui.hawaii.edu\/studentaffairs\/kombucha-tea-sunflower-oil-and-manjookies-win-top-awards-at-food-innovation-pitch-event\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kit Furukawa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three innovative food businesses and entrepreneurs walked away with top awards at the Maui Food Industry X-celerator\u2019s pitch event at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Maui College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[734,951,950,71,60],"class_list":["post-77990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-food","tag-maui-food-innovation-center","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77990"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109593,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990\/revisions\/109593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}