Programs
Premium Food and Beverage Program
Industry-led research collaborations exploring the complex structure, properties and processing required to develop future food and beverage in Australia
The Food and Beverage Accelerator’s Premium Food and Beverage Program brings globally-recognised researchers and industry together to address the science and engineering challenges of creating sustainable, ethical and consumer-acceptable foods and ingredients in Australia.
Developing and delivering product knowledge that leads to healthier, tastier food
- Highly skilled scientists and engineers, many of whom are leaders in their field and have extensive experience collaborating with local and global industry
- Processing facilities, including pilot and lab-scale processing equipment, food preservation techniques such as freeze drying and HTST/UHT, and newly acquired extrusion capabilities
- Analytical capabilities including methods for evaluating nutritional characteristics, composition, food quality and safety, structure, stability, shelf-life, chemistry, microbiology, rheology, particle characterisation and advanced microscopy techniques
- Functional insights including techniques for evaluating the biological, nutritional, physiochemical and techno-functional properties of ingredients
- Diverse product and agrifood expertise with experience working across a comprehensive range of sectors in the industry including Indigenous foods and development of products using Australian agriculture and native plants
- State-of-the-art sensory facilities and expertise, including trained and experienced sensory panellists and facilitators, and high quality facilities including sensory booths, discussion rooms and a commercial kitchen to assist in new product development
“It’s imperative that future premium food and beverage are nutritionally dense and made sustainably, but to prosper in the market they must also deliver on taste, texture and appearance.
Australian industry can meet these challenges by accessing innovations and knowledge from a range of disciplines.”
Professor Jason Stokes
Program Lead, Premium Food and Beverage
The Premium Food and Beverage Program can support the development of premium products for your business
Professor Jason Stokes
Program Lead, Premium Food and Beverage
jason.stokes@uq.edu.au
Associate Professor Polly Burey
Deputy Program Lead, Premium Food and Beverage
polly.burey@unisq.edu.au
