University of Queensland research has confirmed antioxidant properties in an Australian bushfood used by Indigenous people for generations. Dr Oladipupo Adiamo from UQ’s Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences is investigating the safety and efficacy of powdered Kakadu plum as a food ingredient. “Kakadu plum has been eaten and used [...]
Indigenous communities can now assess the quality and sweetness of their wild-harvested native bush fruits in the field, rather than sending samples off to food science laboratories. A prototype digital and portable bush fruits chemistry toolkit has been developed by University of Queensland researchers for communities to use on site, [...]
By Zara Boshier |Master of Agricultural Science, University of Queensland Project: Exploring the Applications of NIR Spectroscopy in an Indigenous-led Wild Harvested Kakadu Plum Value Chain Zara recently travelled to Darwin as part of the CRCNA’s Improving the efficiency of Kakadu Plum/ Gubinge value chains to grow a robust and [...]
An Australian-first $1.01 million research and commercial partnership aims to explore the development of a sustainable agribusiness model for traditional Australian medicinal plants growing in northern Australia. The 18 month project, which is a partnership between Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies), Traditional Homeland Enterprises (T.H.E.), Integria Healthcare (Integria) and [...]
Northern Australia’s Kakadu Plum/ Gubinge (Terminalia ferdinandiana) industry is poised to secure a slice of the $US130 billion functional foods market, thanks to a new Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA) project launched at Darwin’s Parliament House today. The three-year, $2.2 million project brings together researchers from the [...]