• Research Capabilities
  • Sustainable land and water
  • High performance plants
  • Personalised foods
    • Food composition
    • The role of dietary nutrients
    • Developing food concepts and products
    • Fresh whole foods
    • Prebiotics and probiotics for digestive health
    • Research programmes
  • High value marine products
  • New biomolecules and biomaterials

Personalised foods

We undertake a range of collaborative research programmes in this area. Some examples are highlighted below.

Lifestyle Foods for energy management

Lifestyle Foods is an $18.4 million six-year research programme designed to develop the `next generation' of snack foods with high consumer appeal and specific health benefits. The research is led by Crop & Food Research, but is undertaken in partnership with a range of companies who help guide the direction of research and ensure findings will meet the needs of industry. The end result will be healthy convenient food products that benefit New Zealanders and have huge export potential.

Functional foods for gut health
This collaborative programme between Comvita and Crop & Food Research will produce the understanding required to develop novel, high-value, functional foods targeted at the 70% of the world’s population who are infected with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

The foods developed in this programme will be beneficial to the 200 million consumers globally who are eager to reduce the disease risk associated with infection, such as gastritis, ulcers and gastric cancer.

Nutrigenomics – foods to meet personal needs
This programme is extending current food science capabilities through a New Zealand Nutrigenomics Centre of Excellence. A major aim of this research programme is to determine how foods and food components affect gut health at the molecular genetic level by using nutritional genomic methods.

This new knowledge will provide a basis for developing completely new, added-value, export-focused, genotype-specific foods that will deliver proven health and/or performance outcomes for individual consumers. (www.nutrigenomics.org.nz)

GlycANZ: trans-Tasman partnership for a healthy diet. Consumers, grain producers and the food industry will be the beneficiaries of a new research alliance to speed up the measurement of the glycaemic response of grains, ingredients and processed foods.

Spanning the Tasman, the newly established GlycANZ is a research partnership between New Zealand’s Crop and Food Research and Australia’s CSIRO through its Food Futures Flagship.

For more information on this research programme download PDF 140 Kb

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