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CSIRO is uniquely placed to deliver safe, nutritious and novel horticulture ingredients and products from farm to fork to underpin Australia's $11 billion horticulture industry. We are exploring opportunities to transform value in the horticultural supply chain by efficiently matching science-business opportunities to the market and assessing the potential for the capture of value.

Grapes

Australia's wine and grape industry has been one of the nation's great agricultural success stories. We are working with industry to improve the performance of grapes in the production, processing and marketing chain.

Converting food waste into nutritious ingredients Food manufacturing

Food currently lost or wasted throughout the production and consumption cycle can be converted into nutritious and tasty foods.

Mapping horticultural food loss Food manufacturing

We undertook Australia's largest study of food loss across the horticultural value chain to quantify the amount of human-grade edible food lost throughout the production value chain.

Novel Australian lime varieties

CSIRO has been developing Australian desert lime varieties since the 1980s. All are commercialised as ornamental citrus or as niche fruits for food and beverage uses.

PhenoMobile - Tech-enabled phenotyping Crops

PhenoMobile® technology, a non-destructive and ground-based system, enables accurate, timely, and high throughput data acquisition of crop phenotypes.

Preshafruit - high pressure juices Our food industry success stories and videos

Seasonal juice blends, smoothies and vegetable juices, which are sold in supermarkets nationally.

Smart breeding with phenomics Crops

Phenomics tools offer non-destructive and high throughput methods to quantify crop performance in response to the environment.
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