Plum pickings: ancient fruit ripe for modern plates

Plum pickings: ancient fruit ripe for modern plates

Posted by Heather Smyth

An Indigenous fruit which is one of the earliest known plant foods eaten in Australia could be the next big thing in the bush foods industry.

The University of Queensland research team is led by bush foods researcher Associate Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, who said the green plum not only tasted delicious but contained one of the highest known folate levels of any fruit on the commercial market.

See our UQ media release for more details.

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