Webinar: Food science in action: From defence rations to space food

Webinar 2 in our Food Science & Technology Week Series!

Food science in action: From defence rations to space food

How do you design food for environments where nutrition, safety, shelf life and practicality all matter?

This webinar will explore how food science supports food for challenging and specialised environments, from defence settings to space exploration.

The session will consider what these settings can teach us about the future of food, including how food science can help respond to broader challenges around nutrition, food security, sustainability, resilience and food system design.

Bringing together perspectives from defence nutrition and future-focused food innovation, this webinar will showcase food science in action where performance, practicality, safety and long-term impact all matter.

Key learning outcomes include:

• Understand how food science supports food design for defence, space and other challenging environments  
• Explore why nutrition, safety, shelf life and practicality are important in specialised food settings
• Consider how innovation for extreme or specialised environments can inform broader food system solutions
• Gain insight into the role food science can play in supporting future food resilience and performance  

Speakers

• Dr Julia Low, Senior Lecturer, RMIT University
• Daniel Philip, Defence Nutrition Australia
• Dr Flavia Fayet-Moore, FOODiQ Global

Followed by a Q&A