Our Science

Food and Nutrition

CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences provides research to:

• Enhance and improve the community's health and vitality
• Assist food businesses to access opportunities in the functional foods sector
• Help the food industry bring foods with substantiated health benefits to market
• Assist in lowering public health costs

CSIRO's researchers provide expertise in:

• Foods for healthy genes
  Nutrigenomics is the new science of understanding how your unique genetic make-up determines your dietary requirements and how your diet can alter the structure of your chromosomes and genes and their expression.
• Diet and lifestyle: guidelines for total wellbeing
  The CSIRO Human Nutrition Centre has undertaken extensive dietary and lifestyle research leading to the development of new health and wellbeing guidelines.
• Functional foods: separating food fact from fiction
  The CSIRO Human Nutrition Centre has three decades of experience in substantiating the beneficial effects of diets, food products, nutrients, supplements and food-related pharmaceuticals.
• Clinical trial facility
  Our purpose built clinical trial facility, encompassing in vivo and in vitro and behavioural and cognitive assessment capacity provides a significant competitive advantage.