The Eggcelerator Lab® is now accepting entries for its 2025-2026 Product Development Competition ​through January 20, 2026

The American Egg Board’s Eggcelerator Lab® is excited to launch its 2025 Product Development Competition. This competition will engage, excite, and encourage students to think big by showcasing their knowledge, expertise, and ideas in creating beverage products that focus on New and Novel Uses for Eggs in Beverage.

Eggs are an ingredient with endless nutritional and functional benefits that can transform and create new products. Students—tomorrow’s food product developers—can showcase novel ways to use egg ingredients in products that help meet today’s consumer preferences for new types of beverage products.

Undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in institutions within the United States are eligible to compete by developing innovative new food products incorporating egg as an ingredient. Successful entries will meet specific competition criteria demonstrating innovation and providing value to consumers.

AEB’s Eggcelerator Lab® is the egg industry’s innovation center, created to spearhead innovation and help bring new egg-based product ideas to market through unparalleled insights and proven innovation methodologies, along with unmatched technical, functional, culinary & nutrition expertise. The Eggcelerator Lab® is addressing consumer needs through transformative products and technologies that capitalize on the unique functional and nutritional benefits of the incredible egg.

For more information, please reach out to Andrea Chan at achan@aeb.org

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