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Bush Foods

Episode: 3
Broadcast: 27th June 2015
Presenter: Theo Kalogeracos

Theo heads out to Twin Lakes Cultural Park in the Kimberley to taste food that can only be found in the outback.

  • Gubinge or Kakadu Plum is a native food featured at the festival, this fruit contains the most vitamin C of any known natural fruit in the world. Known as a super-food, the Gubinge holds over 50 times more vitamin C than an orange.
  • The Gubinge has become increasingly popular in food cosmetics such as condiments, sauces, vitamin c organic powders, soaps, shampoos, lotions and ointments.
  • Dreaming tea is a traditional tonic favoured as a medicine by Nyul Nyul people sap, bark and leaves. This tea is best taken in the evening before going to sleep.

Twin Lakes Cultural Park:
Contact – 08 9192 3825
Home: http://www.twinlakes.net.au/index.html

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