A super-mango – perfect in taste and able to fight diabetes – will be created by scientists at Coopers Plains’ new food sciences complex.
A specially designed “sniffing machine” has been developed to help boffins get the recipe right.
Staff from Innovative Food Technologies at Hamilton will move to the Health and Food Sciences Precinct when it opens next year on Kessels Rd, next to QEII Hospital.
There they will finalise research into the super mangoes which, apart from tasting extraordinarily good, will help fight human diseases.
Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (DPI&F;) research scientist Heather Smyth said the sniffing machine would be used to measure the flavours and quality of mango varieties from around the world.
The machine, unlike a human nose, is able to detect and identify the chemical compounds responsible.
She said the aim was to create mangoes with the right mix of flavour and natural chemicals to help prevent metabolic disorders such as Type 2 diabetes.
The chemicals in the mangoes would help people combat the condition, much like the antioxidants in some foods help curb heart disease.
“The machine, which will be sniffing mangoes grown at Mareeba by the DPI&F;, is the most advanced one of its kind in Australia,” she said.
Scientists will also work on a new variety of sweet corn that will help fight degenerative eye conditions, as well as milk and margarines that help lower cholesterol.
Source: southern-star.whereilive.com.au
Publication date: 3/3/2009
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