Plum pickings: ancient fruit ripe for modern plates:
An Indigenous fruit which is one of the earliest known plant foods eaten in Australia could be the next big thing in the bush foods industry.
The University of Queensland research team is led by bush foods researcher Associate Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, who said the green plum not only tasted delicious but contained one of the highest known folate levels of any fruit on the commercial market.
"This is really exciting because folate is an important B-group vitamin, and what's great about the green plum is that the folate is in a natural form so the body absorbs it more easily than in a capsule," Dr Sultanbawa said.
[...] "There is recent evidence discovered in West Arnhem Land which shows the green plum was eaten by Aboriginal people as far back as 53,000 years ago."
Will mass cultivation disrupt aboriginal communities?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:02AM (3 children)
Notice it's aussie native - criminality is in its dna.
Chances are, it will kill you, one way or another.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:17AM (2 children)
The criminals were much more recently introduced, and all imported from UK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @04:06PM
After America first, it was where Britain sent its sick and wretched human garbage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @03:45AM
Recently imported from Syria, UAE, Iran, Iraq...