Dr Anneline Padayachee is passionate about making good food better – and by better she means improving nutritional quality and nutritional understanding in a manner that everyone gets. For her nutrition is way more than weight loss, chronic disease treatment and the well-ness and fitness industries. For Anneline, it is essential fuel for every single cell in the body, from our DNA to our growth to our aging process and to disease outcomes. Recognised nationally as a persuasive voice of food and nutrition science from nutrients in foods before you eat it, to the factors that affect nutrient absorption after you eat it, and the impact on total health, Anneline gives practical meaning to nutrition by identifying high value commercial opportunities for industry, helping farmers understand where they fit in the health continuum and exploring why consumers eat the way they do. With a PhD in nutritional food science, she’s worked in industry, research and academia, from ice-cream and sausage meal to ingredients and infant formula. Anneline is a professional member of the Nutrition Society of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST) and sits on the Australian Academy of Science’s National committees for Nutrition and Agriculture and Food. Dr Anneline was named a Future Food Leader in Innovation by Food Innovation Australia Limited (FIAL), received the Nutrition Society of Australia’s award for Research Excellence, was named Australia’s Best Performing Science Communicator, and is considered on of Australia’s Top 50 cutting edge female scientists for her position as an influential expert translating research for industry and the broader community. However, it is Anneline’s own personal experience, dealing with life threatening diagnoses that drove her deeper in the sciences of nutrition and food, and against all odds helped her to regain her health again that anchors her belief in food, nutrition and farmers being the start of health. Her combination of experience and skills makes her a powerful advocate for the role food production plays in improving individual and public health outcomes. She currently works as a sought-after speaker in conferences, writes editorial features for industry magazines and as a consultant to the food sector. She is contactable via the website: www.dranneline.com.