High-value vanilla crop grown in geodome from Sydneysider’s smartphone
Sydney-based inventor David Soo has grown vanilla worth $600,000 in a custom-made high-tech geodome in which everything can be controlled remotely via smartphone.
Sydney-based inventor David Soo has grown vanilla worth $600,000 in a custom-made high-tech geodome in which everything can be controlled remotely via smartphone.
Insects have been much-touted lately as a healthy, sustainable source of alternative protein, spawning a swarm of start-ups. But just how viable is the sector’s growth potential in APAC?
Australia’s wine industry, keen to maintain its ‘clean, green’ image; is working with the Fight Food Waste CRC in a bid to turn ‘waste product’ grape marc into high-value nutriceutical grape seed extract.
Across the world, demand is on the rise for high-value spice crops such as caraway and cumin. This is good news for those looking to establish a new export-focused industry in northern Australia.
Global malt-product supplier Muntons has invested in a novel closed-loop solution to shrink its carbon footprint, turning waste into biofertiliser for its barley suppliers and green power for itself.
They’re clean-label, minimally processed, 100 per cent plant-based and packed with functional and nutritional benefits: natural malt and oat extracts are useful, versatile, on-trend ingredients, according to US-based Malt Products Corporation.
A specialty flour made of spent grain from the beer-brewing industry that would otherwise have been wasted netted Byron Bay-based start-up Grainstone an innovation award at last year’s Global Table and funding from the Fight Food Waste CRC.
Fable Food Co began turning mushrooms into meat-alternative products at the start of 2020. By March, the company was experiencing strong demand, says company CEO Michael Fox.