How an ancient dinosaur snack could be a shelf-ready bush food for Indigenous communities

An ancient native nut once eaten by dinosaurs has huge potential to be part of the booming Indigenous bush food industry, according to new research led by the University of Queensland.

"I found out that they were actually from the same family, just a different species," Ms Moura Nadolny said.and there are 21 species around the world but only three of them are edible by humans."For thousands of years Aboriginal nation groups journeyed to Queensland's Bunya Mountains and Blackall Range, gathering when the large cones weighing up to 10 kilograms, dropped from an ancient species of pine tree towering up to 50 metres high.

The professor in nursing at the University of Southern Queensland, who has a keen interest in food sovereignty and researches First Nations history, provided guidance to Ms Moura Nadolny about her people's ancient food."For her and for me there was a real interest around how I could be on one continent and her people are on another continent and yet there's an incredible similarity between the nuts [and the traditions around them].

"And she has been helping me to write as well because I don't want to just put my results in a paper and publish." "If you could find in the supermarket, as we find chestnuts, it would be amazing," Ms Moura Nadolny said.While praising the research, Professor Best was cautious about the next step.

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How racist is that ABC.

What. So the indigenous have claim over these too?.Is this equality?.Look what we (you) have created!.It’s a plant in Australia of which we are ALL citizens!. What a devisive mess the current level of wokeness has created and it’s comng from the top.We are “NOT”one apparently

Do they actually need help with bush food?

Bunya nuts. Also known as Bachelor nuts

No, that's not what this article about. It's about commercialisation of a food that's been used for centuries by Indigenous people who live where it grows. They don't need to be told how to use it.

Hardly just a dinosaur snack. These are delicious

Dark Emu, book two 😅👍

Thriving bush food industries would require lots of white people to purchase and eat bush foods. Wouldn't that be cultural appropriation?

This is satire isn’t it?

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