Made using green Australian lady finger bananas, this gluten free flour is naturally high in resistance starch and minerals. Banana flour has a mild, nutty taste and can be used as an alternative to other flours in most recipes.
Production of the banana flour took off when Rob moved development from his family’s 300-hectare property west of Cairns to a new pharmaceutical food-grade factory.
This 2010 Young Farmer of the Year is also the bright mind behind the award winning Banana Blankey—a polypropylene material carton insert for packing bananas—and a banana harvester that eliminates 80 per cent of the labour-intensive activities in bunch picking.
Entrepreneurs like Rob Watkins help Queensland’s regional economies to grow stronger and more diverse.