Researchers from Curtin University, the University of Wollongong and Sanitarium have developed the first staple food made almost entirely from red sorghum whole grains.
Associate Professor Stuart Johnson has discovered that a grain used mainly in animal feed in Australia contains properties that may have the potential to help combat type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Farmers typically do not consider coloured sorghum grain ideal for feeding to pigs but the grain could be the answer to battling obesity and other chronic diseases in humans, Curtin University researchers have found.
Sorghum grain may be a new weapon in the fight against type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity according to a Curtin University of Technology researcher.