Completed project
Communication and education of mushroom nutrition research to health professionals (phase 2) (MU14000)
Publication date: February 5, 2019
Delivery Partner: Nutrition Impact
This project, which ran from 2014 into 2017, collected research findings and information on the health and nutrition benefits of mushrooms and communicated it to a range of health professionals who are in a position to influence the community more broadly.
The team…
Throughout the project, the team responded to requests for help from dietitians, bloggers, journalists and researchers regarding the role of mushrooms in health as needed, providing information and content for their channels.
There was also support for Australia’s Healthy Weight Week, an initiative of the Dietitian’s Association of Australia that each year involved events throughout the country. Health professionals were provided with social media updates to share regarding the health benefits of mushrooms, and mushrooms featured in Healthy Weight Week cookbooks. Likewise, there was support for Nutrition Australia’s National Nutrition Week.
The project also fed into the Mushrooms and Health Global Initiative, an international collaboration that produced a quarterly bulletin to alert growers, mushroom associations, health professionals and researchers about newly published research and health-focused promotional activities. The last bulletin was produced in 2016.
Visit the Australian Mushrooms website to see current health and nutrition resources.
This project was a strategic levy investment in the Hort Innovation Mushroom Fund
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