Not a mention of Australian cuisine in popular World food trends A recent research report on the food trends in the USA listed the usual suspects including Italian, Mexican and Chinese as the ‘Big 3’. Lower on the list were ...
Australian Functional Ingredients is a specialist in supplying Australian native extracts for a wide range of applications. Food uses include nutritional mixes for concentrates, puree blends and flavourings for beverages which use the super-food status of Australian wild foods. And ...
Why are we getting fat?It’s pretty clear that as a population, we in the developed world are losing the Battle of the Bulge. Despite promotion of whole foods, organics or healthy food choices; the marketing of food pyramids; go, grow, ...
I have often spoken about our instinctive taste drives but recently, while looking for a reference on this topic, I realized that I had not written about it.It appears that we have at least 4 biological taste drives that regulated ...
Can’t lose weight? Here’s Why… If you’ve tried but can’t lose weight it is probably not your fault. The quality of our foods and the way your metabolism reacts are probably the causes. There are so many rubbish diets and ...
The more I researched the fact of the Australian Government planning to lease land to the Chinese to grow sugar cane in the Kimberly, the more incensed I got.33,000 ha of the pristine Kimberly coast will be obliterated to grow ...
Interesting discussion on the Sweetener Research Group of LinkedIn. It led me to suggest that perhaps sucrose and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) should be classed as artificial sweeteners too.Research into wild foods in Australia shows that sucrose is rare ...
Dr Kowalski is the author of the booklet with the same name as the title of this blog and I happened to re-read it the other day. George is also my business partner in Kakadu International Pty Ltd.Re-reading the booklet ...
Why are getting fatter as a society? According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, excess body fat may account for 20 percent of all cancer deaths in women and 14 percent in men. By following the ...
The world lost a great woman on Friday, 28th May 2010, when Sibylla Hess-Buschmann passed away after losing her battle with cancer. She leaves behind two sons, Boyd and Shawn her long time life partner, husband Guenther Buschmann as well ...
Hospitality Directory has given me some air with a product review on Herbal-Active®.My natural antimicrobial is ideal for berries, cherries, stone fruits and melons; vegetables such as zucchini and cucumbers and even tomatoes which can harbour molds which can then contaminate ...
Politicians are talking down the economy and taking us into a recession whether it’s inevitable or not. It’s a case of the personal development cliche that if you think you can or you think you can’t; you’re right.Restaurants are suffering ...
Here’s an interesting piece of research which initially took me aback and then made perfect sense.Out of a bunch of restaurants in which lemon wedges on drinks were microbiologically tested, 77% returned high populations of food borne disease organisms including ...
The following is reproduced from the ABC News website:Gardens program aims to increase bush tucker demandIt is hoped a new training program will increase international demand for Aboriginal bush tucker.The Western Australian Government hopes its Community Gardens Program will increase the ...
Australian fruits are in the press again because of recent research by the CSIRO confirming work we conducted at Charles Sturt University last year. This showed that a range of red, crimson to purple Australian fruits have astronomic levels of ...
A recent article about a new, carefully controlled study on sodium benzoate (a common food preservative) and food colourings in foods showed that some artificial additives increase hyperactivity and decrease attention span in a wide range of children, not just ...
I have spent years scouring the literature, supervising and advising post-graduate projects in research and conducting benchtop trials on natural preservatives and the anti-microbial properties of extracts of a range of indigenous Australian herbs. Finally, I have formulated a food ...
Here’s something indirectly related to Australian food which amazes me. I often refer to the creation of a unique Australian food style using the food resources of Australian Aborigines as a modern trend of using the newest ingredients from the ...
I have been told that there is nothing like my new product on the market. Nothing legal anyway. Rainforest Mist by Vic Cherikoff is a totally new, natural functional lifestyle product designed to remind you that you are alive!Just like ...
Paperbark smoke oil Flavour – delicate smoke flavour of paperbark cooking Colour and Appearance – Transparent yellow oil Typical uses – as for infusion oils Helpful hints – Best used as a flavouring oil as for sesame seed or truffle ...
