Australia is famous for lamingtons and the beloved meat pie, but researchers want to transform our traditional cuisine to include native bush foods like Illawarra plums, pindan walnuts and wattleseed.
Australian Native Food and Botanicals deputy chair Russell Glover said the industry is aware of about 6,400 native food and botanicals but only 18 are currently in commercial production."The number one [challenge] is getting traditional foods in Australia that have been used for thousands and thousands of years through the food safety process," he said.
"And then actually getting these plants into a commercial production system that can supply mainstream Australian agricultural produce."He said the native foods industry needs to be better supported by other industries and all levels of government. "We have the health and nutritional benefits and then we have the unique flavours of Australian native, which I know of chefs from France, Germany, England, the United States all rave over," Mr Glover said.
"Why aren't we using these more in our actual cuisine? Getting enough to use seems to be the real problem."
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