The recent annual scientific meeting of the Australasian Society of Child Immunology heard that current research shows that Australia has the highest prevalence of food allergy in the world. The meeting was told by Professor Johan Garssen of the Danone Research – Centre for Specialised Nutrition and Utrecht University –Department Immunopharmacology, Utrecht, the Netherlands, that

Homo sapien is an omnivore. This means humans eat both meats and vegetable matter. Meat has different meanings for different people, but essentially it means the muscle or flesh from living animals, birds and seafood. Vegetarians and Vegans will usually define meat as being from animals, birds and seafood, whereas there are other people that

Two projects are being undertaken in conjunction with the University of Adelaide, in South Australia, on improving either the quality of wheat for making pasta products or in enhancing the health benefits of durum wheat. The work is being done at ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell, with support and collaboration with the Universities

Caviar is the eggs from specific types of fish – particularly certain species of salmon. Due to the process and limited amount of eggs available from each fish, it is an expensive food and is therefore not found in most shopping baskets. It is a special dish and has a reputation of quality. Australia is