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FOODplus Vision

To improve human health through research excellence that links food, nutrition and sustainable agriculture. 

FOODplus

FOODplus will

  • Develop research programs in food and nutrition as they relate to human health
  • Ensure that our commitment to research excellence is maintained
  • Translate nutrition research into food products with health outcomes
  • Create research and economic relationships with the food industry and agriculture
  • Identify new agricultural products that meet the nutritional aims of FOODplus and develop opportunities to translate those products into healthy foods
  • Through research excellence, play a key role in helping to set the national agenda in relation to food and nutrition

A Joint Venture of WCHRI and the University of Adelaide
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The FOODplus newsletter for December 2012 can be downloaded here.


FOODplus on Today Tonight

Prof Bob Gibson comments on the nutritional aspects of coconut oil

http://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/?page=Story&StoryID=1334

 

The 2nd J.A. Prescott Lecture

31st January 2012, Waite Campus

Speaker: Professor Ismail Cakmak, Biological Sciences & Bioengineering Program, Faculty of Engineering & Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Zinc Deficiency: A Global Nutritional Problem in Crop Production and Human Nutrition
Prof Ismail Cakmak visited the Waite Campus recently and gave an excellent seminar as part of the prestigious J.A. Prescott series. Prof Cakmak described the soil-plant-food-nutrition-health continuum as it relates to the trace element zinc, in particular how deficiencies in soil zinc bioavailability affect plant productivity, plant health, food quality and human health for 1/3rd of the world population. He talks about how plant breeding and agronomy approaches can address the problem.

For more information about Prof Cakmak please see: http://agwine.adelaide.edu.au/news_events/seminar/

Hear his lecture here (mp3)

 

 

"Eating for Two" Podcast

Over 300 people took advantage of this unique opportunity to hear from some of Australia's finest practitioners and researchers, and to have their questions on nutrition in pregnancy answered. The audio of the 3 short talks and the 45 minutes of questions and answers is available for download through this link. [Link]

Follow this link to find out more about the event and the speakers: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/foodplus/news-events/public/

 

Recent Media

On Tuesday the 8th of March, FOODplus appeared in a segment by Today Tonight focusing on the FR Durum grain developed by Foodplus researchers. You can watch the video clip here.