Nicolas Appert (study association)

Nicolas Appert is a Dutch study association for Food Technology students at Wageningen University. The association is named after the French inventor Nicolas Appert, who can be seen as the first food technologist. The chef Nicolas Appert was researching ways to preserve food for a longer period of time and discovered that heating food products in a closed glass jar would greatly increase its shelflife. A process, nowadays called appertisation.

The logo of Nicolas Appert

On September 6, 1962, during a foreign study trip, the study association Nicolas Appert was founded. Nowadays the association is still very active, having good relations with food companies and organising a lot of activities for its members.

Examples of these activities are lectures and excursions from and to food companies, but also social activities such as a sporting or drinks with the departments of Food Processing, Food Chemistry, Food Microbiology, Food Physics and Product Design and Quality Management. All these activities are made possible by the participation of a large group of active, enthusiastic students in committees and the board.