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A group that helps Kiwi businesses investigate the health benefits of the food they produce says as of next week, many of the researchers they've funded will effectively be working for free.
That's when the money runs out for the High Value Nutrition Challenge, one of eleven similar programmes established in 2014 with the aim of tackling the biggest science-based issues facing the country.
The High Value Nutrition Challenge was designed to help Kiwi food producers validate their health benefits, with a view to capitalising on that at export.
But its 10 years of funding runs out on June 30, and there's nothing more in the pipeline.
There are, however, still research projects underway - into things like digestive, infant and immune health - many of which had clinical trials interrupted by Covid.
Kathryn speaks to Joanne Todd, director of High Value Nutrition, and Vanessa Hayes, whose company Torere Macadamias was the subject of a study funded through HVN that found their nuts had a higher concentration of a number of vitamins and minerals than those overseas.
