A new healthy vegetable snack, drawing on innovation from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO together with start-up Nutri V, will see food waste reduced and support farmers to be more sustainable.
The product, Nutri V Goodie snacks contains broccoli, pumpkin and cauliflower, which can’t be sold and would otherwise have gone to waste, often as landfill or animal feed.
Raquel Said, CEO of Nutri V, explained that the company was born from a farming business with a passion for innovation and sustainability.
“Part of growing veggies can involve ending up with tonnes that don’t meet specification or there’s an oversupply and there’s stalks and leaves, yet it’s all still perfectly nutritious,” Ms Said explained.
“We wanted to create a business to upcycle that waste into a sustainable yet delicious solution, which is what we’ve done with the Nutri V vegetable powders, a star ingredient in Nutri V Goodie snacks,” she said.
“We see this as vegetables reimagined, no fork required, and we think it’s the future of helping Australians top up their veggie consumption while supporting farmers to reduce waste.”
The Nutri V Goodies have two serves of vegetables in every pack and are a convenient option for people to increase their intake.
They have a higher vegetable content and health star rating than many other snack foods on the market.
CSIRO’s director of Agriculture and Food Dr Michael Robertson said vegetable-rich food innovation such as Nutri V helps farmers add real value to their businesses, while supporting sustainability in the agrifood sector.
“With CSIRO’s unique expertise and our world-class food research facilities, we can support the creation of healthy concept products and in the case of Nutri V, developing an innovative scaled process to take it to market,” Dr Robertson said.
“This partnership with a business at the forefront of agricultural production is a terrific example of how research can work with industry for the benefit of Australia.”
CSIRO and Nutri V are also working together on a suite of veggie-based innovations using other CSIRO technologies.
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