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Our expertise in food science helps the Australian food industry compete in domestic and global markets and make food products for Australian consumers that are safe, sustainable and taste great.

Healthier foods

Making healthier foods

We research how the microscopic structure of food and how food is processed affect the quality of everyday food products. This work helps support the food industry develop an innovative and healthier supply of manufactured foods and ingredients to Australian consumers and export markets.

BARLEYmax

A wholegrain developed by CSIRO has superior health benefits that can help combat cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and colorectal cancer.

Catcher of the rye: Science can now detect any gluten in any food

Scientists from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, can now detect gluten in any food and show which grain it comes from, making it easier for food companies to correctly label their products.

Converting food waste

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

Virtual mouth

Our favourite everyday processed foods could taste just as good but be healthier in future, thanks to our virtual mouth technology that is revealing the science of chewing.

Wheat a kick in the guts for fighting diseases

A new type of wheat that has ten times the amount of the fibre which helps improve gut health and also fights bowel cancer and Type 2 diabetes than normal wheat has been developed by an international team including CSIRO.

Vegetable-based foods

Kids become ‘food adventurers’ in new veggie program from CSIRO

A new program from CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, is using science to encourage primary school kids to eat more veggies.

VegEze app

We’re boosting Australia’s vegetable intake with an innovative app. Try the VegEze app today and take the 21-day challenge to improve your diet.

Encouraging children to eat more vegetables

A five year national initiative to encourage children to eat more vegetables

Novel extruded foods

We're using extrusion technology to reduce food waste and loss, develop healthy grain products and transform under-utilised biomass into food.

Mapping horticultural food loss

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.

Reducing food waste

We're converting food otherwise lost from the supply chain to help boost our population's vegetable intake.

Protein-based foods

CSIRO and Jack Cowin launch v2food

PARTNER RELEASE - What do you get when you pair up the nation’s best-of-breed scientists and one of Australia’s most prolific food industry pioneers? v2food.

Sex lives of flies could be key to tackling food waste

This National Science Week, Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has revealed how a secret recipe to get Black Soldier Flies in the mood could help tackle our local food waste crisis.

Australian Plant Proteins

Australian Plant Proteins (APP) optimised the protein content extracted from faba beans to more than 80% through a CSIRO Kick-Start project.

Proteomics

We are using mass spectrometry (MS) and proteomics to help identify key proteins that will benefit Australia's livestock and plant industries, and improve human health.

CSIRO Protein Plus

The CSIRO Protein Plus Nutrition and Exercise Plan is a lifestyle book that highlights the importance of protein and resistance exercise for weight loss and healthy ageing.

Protein-based foods

Protein is a building block of life and we'll need to grow more protein, more sustainably, to feed the world's growing population. We're helping make new high protein foods and feed with our expertise in protein research, food science, nutrition, innovation and more. Read about some of our research developing protein-based foods and feed.

New, sustainable foods

Making new foods

Our scientists work with Australian industry to sustainably transform raw food materials into new, tasty and high quality everyday food products and ingredients for Australian and export markets.

Plant-based protein alternative foods

We’re working with industry to develop new locally produced and commercially available foods made from plant-based protein.

Converting food waste

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

Food and Agribusiness Roadmap

Future growth of the sector cannot be sustained by productivity improvements alone. CSIRO Futures worked with industry and researchers to identify major growth opportunities and what the food and agribusiness sector needs to do to achieve them.

Teff food products

Outback Harvest, based in the NSW Riverina is working with CSIRO and Food Innovation Australia Ltd (FIAL) to develop certified gluten-free foods made from the ancient grain, teff, grown in Australian.

Preshafruit juices

A company that started its life at CSIRO now has their world-first, award-winning juices available in supermarkets nationally and is on a growth curve through its exports to Asia.

Safer foods

Making safer foods

We research food borne bacteria, fungi and chemicals to make sure that Australians can continue to feel confident that the foods we buy are safe for our families to eat.

Goodman Fielder- safe innovation

Goodman Fielder collaborated with CSIRO and Food Innovation Australia (FIAL) through their SME Solution Centre to create better tasting and healthier dressings, sauces and mayonnaises to meet changing consumer demands.

Moira Macs

Moira Mac’s has revolutionised the supermarket cooked meat section as the first company in Australia to use high pressure pasteurisation (HPP) for smallgoods processing.

Make it Safe: A Guide to Food Safety

Make It Safe provides practical guidance on how to control food safety hazards, with a specific focus on controls suitable for implementation by small-scale businesses.

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