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21 October 2009
The Monash Centre for Green Chemistry has developed and patented processes to reclaim some of the nutritional ingredients that get removed from food in its processing - vitamins and other products that scientists believe help our bodies prevent and fight disease - so they can be added to foods or taken as health supplements.
The compounds are reclaimed from food waste such as peanut shells, apple skins, fruit kernels and grape skins that would otherwise go to landfill.
From this waste, chemists separate complex vitamins, compounds that lower cholesterol called phytosterols, and antioxidants - products believed to help prevent diseases such as cancer and coronary heart disease.
The separation process has been developed under the leadership of Professor Milton Hearn as part of the CSIRO's Food Futures Flagship, in conjunction with the University of Melbourne.
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