Archive for the ‘News’ Category
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Building a native food industry in Australia
The University of Adelaide and The Orana Foundation, founded by chef Jock Zonfrillo, have announced a major new research partnership to support the development of an Australian native food industry. Waite research will play a key role in partnership projects centred on…
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Smashing it! Avocado innovation receives international coverage
A world-first innovative plant growing technique that is set to double Queensland’s avocado production and smash the global shortage of avocado trees has received a $636,000 grant through the second round of the Palaszczuk Government’s Advance Queensland Innovation Partnerships program. Read more
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UQ ranked number one for food science in Australia
The University of Queensland was ranked as the top Food Science & Technology research institute in Australia in the Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017. Globally in Food Science and Technology, UQ ranks 39th in the world. No other Australian University…
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Prof Mike Gidley named as AIFST Fellow 2017
The Distinctive Australian Foods CRC bid interim chair, Professor Mike Gidley, was named as a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology at the 50th Anniversary Convention in Sydney on July 18, 2017.
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Towards the perfect papaya
Christopher Columbus called it the “fruit of the angels” and now The University of Queensland (UQ) scientists have, for the first time, identified the sensory properties of the ‘perfect’ papaya. “According to consumer taste tests, the perfect papaya is red, small or…
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Selling beef to Asia? Think meals, not cuts or kilos
For those selling beef into increasingly affluent Asian markets, the trick will be to think meals rather than cuts, says QAAFI’s Professor Mike Gidley, who heads the Centre for Food and Nutrition Sciences at UQ. Professor Gidley said the opportunities for beef emerging from…