Food & Beverage
New Thinking
The secret life of food
Once, food was just food.
The apple of Europe’s eye?
Healthy lifestyles, based on what we eat, is the coming thing. New Zealand’s leadership is recognized by having Crown Research Institute HortResearch as one of only two bodies outside the EU in a “farm to fork” programme seeking to deliver the taste, texture and nutrition EU consumers want.
NZ team unlocking the secrets of tastier, healthier apples
Fruit lovers everywhere will enjoy healthier, tastier apples thanks to world-leading work by Crown Research Institute HortResearch.
Stunning NZ red-fleshed apple is healthier to the core
Get ready to crunch in! A stunning red-fleshed apple, packed with health-promoting antioxidants, was recently unveiled by Crown Research Institute, HortResearch. The new (non GE) apple’s scrumptious flesh is rich red right to the core, due to the high level of the antioxidant anthocyanin.
New Science
New Value
Spanish launch for new pest management product
Small bugs mean big risks - and major loss of income - for greenhouse growers around the world. In New Zealand, onion thrips can be devastating to our largest horticultural crop, while capsicum and aubergine crops are also favourites.
Distinctive New Zealand flavours
Creating flavours from New Zealand native plants is the aim of a new, $1 million, Crop & Food Research programme that will see distinctive New Zealand food products developed for niche, high-value, export markets.
New Zealand takes bite of superfruit market
New research into health and nutrition is helping move fruit up the value chain.
Crop & Food develops cholesterol-free spread
Just released to market is a new spread made from rice bran oil that looks and tastes like butter, but without cholesterol or hydrogenated fats.
Evolving a food and beverage research strategy for New Zealand
Trends in the international marketplace play a key role in strategy development for food and beverage research. Chris Downs, General Manager Strategy, Crop & Food Research, takes a look at the evolving food R&D strategy and what has been achieved this year.
Research may help firm up pipfruit profits.
Apple growers, marketers and retailers may be able to
NZ horticulture quietly takes export spotlight
Apart from flagships Kiwifruit and wine, NZ horticulture exports are seldom high profile. But look closer: in the year to March 2006 horticulture exports quietly hit $2.3 billion. That’s 7% of all NZ exports and a huge $100 million gain on the previous year. Strong growth owes much to ground-breaking new products, where HortResearch takes a driving role.
Growing the $NZ80 million export spud
The humble spud no longer. Sequencing the potato genome will open the way to potatoes with better nutritional value, colour and flavour, powering New Zealand’s $80 million export market. Crop & Food Research scientists are part of a $36 million study involving 8 countries.
