Celaya, Gto., June 2, 2016.- Students from the degree in Biotechnology Engineering from Campus Celaya-Salvatierra, presented projects aimed for the care and wellbeing of health, in different presentation they showed shampoos, oils, analgesics and food made with natural base.

Dr. Mercedes Murillo Torres, professor of the venue Mutualismo, commented that during the semester the objective of the subject of Chemistry was to elaborate a food or product for personal care aimed to the student community or habitants in the vulnerable zones.

"Precisely we apply biotechnology, which consists in better using and generating healthier food and create better medicine, more resistant materials and less polluting, more productive cultures and care of our ecosystem avoiding contamination."

Students Giovana Valdés and Itzallana Cornejo presented the project "Watering systems through clay basins for plants." Clay helps water to not evaporate easily, as what happens with plastic, especially in warm weather.

The students in the second semester Joselyn Maldonado and Paulina Cerda presented Mexican Nopal marmalade, product aimed for people with diabetes.

Joselyn Maldonado precise that they made flavor tests with students "and if we are allowed, we want to commercialize the product since we have detected the need for food in population with diabetes; is an easy recipe with pineapple, honey and nopal."

Students Rubén Lara Rodríguez and Hilario Gracia exhibited artisanal mint oil as a pharmaceutical product aimed to communities of low income. Both students explained that some features like analgesic, antispasmodic, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, among others, besides they gave samples of their product.

They also presented diet bars made with amaranth and moringa leaves; carrot yoghurt with high protein content; nutritional complements and products for the health in general.