25 March 2025
Performance Summary: Both dollar and kilogram sales are growing for Onions this year, at +4.2% and +1.6% respectively. In terms of the change in kilogram […]
26 March 2025
28 May 2025
The ultimate goal of the new Plus One Serve project is to elevate the average daily vegetable intake by one serve per person by the year […]
24 May 2024
Caramelised onion pizza, a zingy red onion pickle, or maybe crispy onion rings topping a burger – if you’re seeing more onion dishes on menus you’re […]
24 May 2024
The increasing number of school canteens being run by catering companies offers opportunities to increase the vegetable consumption of school children. Getting more vegetables on […]
29 February 2024
The Hort Innovation onion nutrition education program for health professionals and the food service industry (VN20002) has continued building momentum over the past six months. Designed […]
25 November 2021
It has been shown that education around the benefits of healthy eating does not necessarily lead to consumers eating more fruit and vegetables. To address this […]
24 November 2021
VEG Education was born from a need to think differently about horticulture workforce development, safety and business security. In this article, founder Catherine Velisha (pictured above) […]
24 November 2021
CSIRO, Flinders University and Nutrition Australia are working together to deliver VegKIT, an integrated five-year project designed to deliver tools and interventions for increasing children’s vegetable […]
14 September 2021
Results from Australian health surveys show only six per cent of Australian children eat the recommended daily intake of vegetables. While it’s not surprising that children […]
14 September 2021
Consumer sentiment was at the heart of Alice Zaslavsky’s presentation at Hort Connections 2021, with the discussion ranging from what consumes the consumer and how the […]
22 June 2021
During 2020, Hort Innovation worked with research company Fiftyfive5 to provide the Australian horticulture sector with information about consumer attitudes and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
22 February 2021
With just six per cent of Australian primary school-aged children meeting the recommended daily intake of vegetables, a program has been established by CSIRO scientists and […]
22 February 2021
Results from consecutive Australian Health Surveys show children are not consuming enough vegetables, with only six per cent of children aged 2-17 years of age eating […]
24 November 2020
Tools and interventions for increasing children’s vegetable knowledge – VegKIT (VG16064) is a strategic levy investment under the Hort Innovation Vegetable Fund, and its aim is […]
17 November 2020
A $4 million, five-year national project is helping to address the significant underconsumption of vegetables by Australian children. This project is bringing together science and industry, […]
18 August 2020
AUSVEG has been trialling a new a consumer-facing social media channel targeted at consumers. The campaign – #EatMoreAusVeg – is designed to address the barriers to eating […]
12 May 2020
Growcom’s new national campaign, Eat Yourself to Health, encourages all Australians to ‘Eat Up and Branch Out’. Growers are asked to join the campaign, by taking part […]
5 May 2020
Growcom’s new national campaign, Eat Yourself to Health, encourages all Australians to ‘Eat Up and Branch Out’. As part of the Eat Yourself to Health campaign, individual growers are […]
4 February 2020
Fresh Produce Safety Centre Australia and New Zealand has published a fact sheet on the impact of animals on the risk of foodborne illnesses in the […]