Agricultural industry looks to diversify turning excess bananas into flour | Sky News Australia

Ms Watkins has become known as a ‘Waste Warrior’ after finding new and creative ways to capitalize on excess produce on her banana plantation near Cairns. The plantaion processed “over a million metric tonnes of green bananas in a 12 month period” which is turned into “flour for baking”.

Ms Watkins now engages in research projects and examines possible areas of development for other horticultural industries which are looking to diversify in light of the ongoing drought, floods and fires. “We look at the best way to take that product, which otherwise would have been thrown away” and turn it into “nutraceuticals, cosmetics or sustainable long shelf-life food products”.

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