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Bushfood Science

Melbourne Bushfood
Scientific Research Library

Finding scientific literature on native foods and their nutritional benefits is hard to find. We've done that hard work for you so you have real, scientifically proven data and evidence to support you.

We have a goal to bring native ingredients into every Australian home, and the science supporting our claims is vital.

We will continue to add to this library, building a deep and large collection of scientific articles in order to promote, build trust, and further the native food industry.

Nutritional Research
Social Impact Research
Production Research

Nutritional Research

General

- Health Benefits of Australian Native Foods, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation

- Untargeted and Targeted Metabolomic Profiling of Australian Indigenous Fruits

- Potential Antioxidant, Antiinflammatory, and Proapoptotic Anticancer Activities of Kakadu Plum and Illawarra Plum Polyphenolic Fractions

- Potential Physiological Activities of Selected Australian Herbs and Fruits, Rural Industris Research and Development Corporation

Anti-Fungal/Anti-Bacterial/Anti-Viral Capacity

- Davidsonia pruriens F. Muell. Fruit and Leaf Extracts Lack

Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity

Digestion

- Composition and inhibitory activities towards digestive enzymes of polyphenolic-rich fractions of Davidson’s plum and quandong

Anti-oxidant capacities

- Hydrophilic phytochemical composition and anti-oxidant capacity of commercially grown native Australian fruits

- Antioxidant Rich Extracts of Terminalia ferdinandiana Inhibit the Growth of Foodborne Bacteria

- Antioxidant capacity and hydrophilic phytochemicals in commercially grown native Australian fruits

Social Impact Research

Traditional Knowledge

- Traditional Knowledge and Biological Product Derivative Patents: Benefit-Sharing and Patent Issues Relating to Camu Camu, Kakadu Plum and Açaí Plant Extracts

- A Desert raisin report Alyawarr speakers from Ampilatwatja

- Value chain analysis of bush tomato and wattle seed product

- Outback livelihoods: employment, sustainable livelihoods and

development in Anmatjere region, central Australia

- Indigenous Peoples’ Livelihoods and Emerging Bush Produce Industries – Recent Experiences from Australia’s Arid Zone

Production Research

Agricultural Research

- Broadscale production of wattle seed to address salinity:

potential and constraints

- The Bush Tomato Handbook

- Proceedings of the Wattle We Eat for Dinner Workshop on Australian Acacias for Food Security

Food Production Research

- Food safety and standard of Australian native plants

- Characterisation of trypsin and α-chymotrypsin inhibitors in Australian wattle seed (Acacia victoriae Bentham)

- Effects of Roasting on the Characteristics of Australian Wattle (Acacia victoriae Bentham) Seed and Extracts

- Antioxidant Rich Extracts of Terminalia ferdinandiana Inhibit the Growth of Foodborne Bacteria

- The Use of a Micro Near Infrared Portable Instrument to Predict Bioactive Compounds in a Wild Harvested Fruit—Kakadu Plum (Terminalia ferdinandiana)

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