Nature
inspired Innovation
to Produce a Better
Banana
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Over
4000 Pacific Coast Banana (Wax Tip - Red, Blue and Green) customers
in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia have been surveyed.
Over 86% have indicated that they buy Pacific Coast Eco 'Wax Tip'
bananas because they know what they are buying. The taste, size
and quality being consistent with the product brand identification
of Pacific Coast Eco-Bananas.
Tastes Sweeter -
because the fruit is not fed with more fertiliser for greater bunch
size and production outputs, but with the minimum amount to produce
a bunch. The Pacific Coast Eco-Bananas' texture is moist, firm
and sweeter.
Bananas are
a good source of Potassium, Vitamin C and fibre. Bananas
are fat free.
Ongoing
research and development is being carried out to monitor and measure
flavour as an indicator of success of the Pacific Coast Eco-Banana
production protocols.
Pacific Coast
Eco-Bananas are Australian owned and grown. Pacific Coast
Eco-Bananas' clean and green image will provide an opportunity
for growers to export. The fruit is grown with significantly reduced
inputs of fertiliser and chemical.
This
has improved soil fertility and also been a key factor in successful
implementation of Integrated Ecological Management (a system that
allows beneficial insects to perform their role in the eco system)
and conservation farming practices.