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Health

How your food choices can benefit more than just your health

The global food system is a large contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, check out how your food choices can help to reduce the impact.

Environment

Faster food is all about the TraNSIT

Like your food? Reducing transport costs for the agricultural community can benefit all of us.

Farming

Climate work-around could boost Australian wheat yields

We’re working to adapt Australian wheat to a changing climate through new genetics and farming practices.

Healthy diets, healthy planet: it is possible

The food we eat and the way we produce it are causing some pretty big environmental problems. We now have global scientific targets give to all humans a healthy diet without depleting the planet’s resources.

Health

Maintaining a healthy gut during weight loss

You’ve probably heard a lot about gut health recently, words like probiotics, gut bacteria and the microbiome are hitting the health headlines on a regular basis. But did you know that poor gut health has direct links with obesity?

Love fish? Choose a range when selecting seafood.

Our research shows that huge economic and environmental benefits could come from fully using fish now discarded. If all of the edible fish caught was kept and sold, both the sustainability and profitability of fishing would significantly improve.

Looking for a low-gluten beer? Here’s what you need to know

Is it really possible to avoid gluten if you like a frothy? Do different types of beers have different levels of gluten? And how accurate are the tests?

Future foods could make you healthier, and the planet greener

Could future foods such as insects, seaweed and lab-grown meat feed us in both an environmentally sustainable and healthy way?

About Us

2018: a CSIRO year in review

We've been hard at work this year solving some of the world’s greatest challenges. Here are the top stories that got your attention in 2018.

Here’s the seafood Australians eat (and what we should be eating)

Over 85 per cent of seafood caught in Australia is sustainable. However, just because a fish is sustainably caught, it doesn’t make it the most nutritious and healthy option – and vice versa. We've compared the two to see what seafood is both sustainable and nutritious.

Health

Lactose on the tip of our virtual tongue

Got milk? Our Cybertongue technology can ‘taste’ milk to rapidly detect lactose and spoilage.

Our food detectives are on the case

Just as a fingerprint can identify a person, our food detectives are working to stamp out food fraud by using isotopes to trace food from the paddock to the plate.

Food