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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

CSIRO's core areas of impact
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Text: CSIRO is helping provide healthier food choices. Image: a bowl of salad. Photo from iStockphoto.com/Kelly Cline
Cover of the Total Wellbeing Diet Book 2.
The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet book 2

Following on from the phenomenal success of The CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, comes Book 2 of the diet.
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CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences overview

CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences is developing high quality, healthy foods that are preferred by consumers and industry.
 
Developing & Marketing Food Products
 

CSIRO innovation is extending the shelf life and quality of food products, leading to better marketability and less waste.

Close-up image of wheat growing in a field.
Developing Healthy Foods
 

CSIRO is studying a variety of opportunities to help create healthier foods such as cholesterol-lowering sterols and omega-3 production in plants.

Different types of cereals and grains.
Food Processing
 

CSIRO is developing fresher, safer and healthier foods by improving our knowledge of food characteristics and using this to create better processing and packaging techniques.

An arrange of fruit and vegetables including apples, carrot, eggplant and capsicum.
Food Quality & Safety
 

CSIRO science is developing better packaging and processing techniques, breeding beneficial traits into food, and reducing the need for pesticides and preservatives.

Moulded plastics trays for packaging chocolates into a cardboard gift box.
Seafood
 

CSIRO research is helping to ensure the economic and environmental sustainability of Australian aquaculture and fisheries through a range of research programs.

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