Lots of people are asking after my booklet titled Super Foods for Super Health which was written with Dr George Kowalski. It covers the significance of a whole range of sources of antioxidants and the first chapter is all about the nutritional value and unique characteristics of Australian wild foods.

A little like the holy trinity of nutrition, well being and health, the combination of Kakadu Juice™, Herbal-Active™ and Manuka honey could just be the cure-all for diseases in and outside the body.

I was at the Variety Charity’s function last week doing a dessert on stage as part of the comedy relief at the event. The function was called Variety of Chefs and I was in the line up with celebrity chefs, Peter Kuruvita, Ben O’Donoghue, Sean Connolly, Jared Ingersoll, Warren Turnbull and hosted by my good friend and colleague, Benjamin Christie.

Lots of people ask me how they can get involved in the wild food industry if they can’t grow foods, only occasionally cook with them or otherwise find it difficult to contribute to the industry’s growth.

They appreciate how tough it’s been pushing the frontiers and always staying ahead of the game. Small business is never easy so starting a new industry is a whole new level of pain.

Hospitality Directory has given me some air with a product review on Herbal-Active™.

My natural antimicrobial is ideal for berries, cherries, stone fruits and melons; vegetables such as zucchini and cucumbers and even tomatoes which can harbour molds which can then contaminate tomato sauces and pastes made from un-dipped tomatoes.

I have been invited to present a workshop in Hong Kong at the Natural Products Expo Asia and this will be on the 28th August at 2pm. My topic is Ancient Flavours for Today’s Kitchen and is sub-titled Prehistoric nutrition for modern times.

Just back from another USA tour for Kakadu Juice. It gets clearer with each visit to the US that here is a country which is quickly manipulating their food supply to high sucrose, high bad fats, low fibre, nutritionally dilute foods.

Pizza Hut, the world’s largest pizza franchise, is launching the first stage in a menu-wide transition to pizzas made entirely from natural ingredients in the US. The new pizzas will provide their customers the opportunity to have pizza free from artificial preservatives, colours and flavours, they advised.

Have you heard about the newest health food product? While they eat horse meat in Europe, feed the meat to dogs in Australia and ride the living animals in the USA, in Japan they recommend the placenta as the healthiest health food.

The Organic Food Chain Pty Ltd has notified us that our natural preservative, Herbal-Active™ is approved for use in organic food products. Its sister formulation, HerBev™ will have the same status for pasteurized beverages.