ANSTO: Food Materials Science

The Michael Tynan Challenge is happy to welcome ANSTO to its list of beneficiaries in 2021 for their amazing contributions to scientific advancements in Health through their world-class research centres.

When designing food products for the marketplace, selecting the appropriate ingredients for a product, or controlling the behaviour of a formulation during processing, it is critical to understand and predict structure-function-property relationships within food constituents.

Food Materials Science utilises ANSTO’s unique nuclear-based methods, including small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), in an effort to address some of the key challenges in food materials science.  The inherent complexity of modern food systems calls for the application of interdisciplinary scientific approaches. ANSTO welcomes collaborations with food scientists in academia and industry, as well as food structure and food processing specialists, biologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, physiologists, and nutritionists to explore new opportunities that address key issues in food materials.

You can read more about food materials science from the ANSTO website here.