Native bunya nuts close to home for Brazilian researcher

A native Australian nut has the potential to be part of the burgeoning Indigenous bushfood industry, according to research led by The University of Queensland.

PhD candidate Jaqueline Moura Nadolny has studied the bunya nut (Araucaria bidwillii), a seed from a native conifer, and was the first to publish a paper on the nut’s composition and sensory properties.

Professor Odette Best, an Indigenous academic and researcher from the University of Southern Queensland helped Ms Moura Nadolny collect her bunya nuts specimens, taking her to trees she knows well.

The paper was published in the Journal of Food Science DOI: 10.1111/1750-3841.16185), and was featured on the cover.

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