A panel of leading Australian food industry experts has ruled out plain packaging of high calorie foods as a possible way to fight obesity. Plain paper packaging was one of the key topics debated at the...

A scheme that offered a health insurance rebate that lowers the cost for healthier supermarket foods, such as fruit and vegetables and wholegrain foods, has been successful in improving the diets of shoppers....

Scientists from the University of Queensland (UQ) are set to revolutionise the fresh fruit industry with a new technology that converts gases into a powder form. Professor Bhesh Bhandari and PhD student...

A major research program aimed at protecting Australia’s AU$450 million banana industry has been launched by a team of scientists, led by the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation...

A Brisbane-based start-up food technology company says it has developed the world’s first non-fermented, multi-strain probiotic milk and juice and is ready to introduce it to the market. The company,...

Queensland Government scientists and researchers from the University of Queensland have discovered new anti-microbial properties in a combination of natural-plant ingredients, including two common native...

Scientists from two Australian universities in collaboration with an international academic have discovered ancient wild cereal genes that could potentially allow less water to be used in conventional...

The impact of fungal diseases on canola crops could be drastically reduced according to scientists from The University of Queensland, who are trying to crack the genetic code of a close canola relative. In...

A growing need for more food science and technology graduates in Australia will be addressed by a landmark new partnership between The University of Queensland (UQ) and the Australian Food and Grocery...

Queensland’s iconic nut is losing ground in its home state, with new research by the WWF revealing that only around 3000 wild nut trees are still alive in their native habitat. The research, by WWF...