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Tannock lab receives $1M of funding from High-Value Nutrition National Science Challenge

Posted by on 3 December 2015 | Comments

Professor Gerald Tannock and his interdisciplinary research team have been awarded $1M of funding to develop a slow-release energy weaning food for babies, to stop them from waking up hungry.

The team will look to develop a new weaning food for evening meals, containing novel dietary fibres that better sustain energy release through the night. With optimal mixtures of dietary fibres, enough sustained energy would be harvested by bowel bacteria to satisfy the infant body's needs until morning.

The research project is one of seven one-million-dollar projects to be launched under the Government's latest "National Science Challenges".

Professor Tannock says that the product will initially be aimed at Chinese consumers due to the country's high birth rate.

Read the media release on the University of Otago website

Read the story on the NZ Herald website