We're using extrusion technology to reduce food waste and loss, develop healthy grain products and transform under-utilised biomass into food.
Extrusion technology is used to make a lot of foods that we consume every day like breakfast cereals, snacks, pasta and confectionery, just to name a few. Extrusion is a versatile processing technology that combines multiple unit operations such as mixing, heating, cooking, shaping and forming into one integrated process.
Extrusion technology offers:
Our food innovation centre is one of only a handful of research organisations in the world with specialist pilot-scale food processing expertise and facilities in food science and manufacturing, including extrusion technology.
Extruded ingredients converted into a healthy snack, and packaged.
Extruded ingredients converted into a healthy snack, and packaged.
Some of the novel extruded food products we're researching are below.
We've transformed under-utilised food biomass into extruded products containing:
We're transforming ancient grains and pulses into:
We can help industry:
CSIRO food innovation centre's twin screw extruder
CSIRO food innovation centre's twin screw extruder
We partner with small and large companies, government and industry in Australia and around the world.