First Nations Foods - Australian Native Ingredients – Page 5

Peppermint Gum | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Spice

Warndu's Peppermint Gum

Australian Native Peppermint Gum is much like peppermint you might be used too and the native version has the same amazing digestive properties as...

Native Lemon Grass | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

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Warndu's Native Lemon Grass

Native Lemon Grass (cymbopogon ambiguus) is seriously our favourite ingredient of them all. Not just for their sherbet bomb flavour, but because i...

Lemon Aspen | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Fruit

Warndu's Lemon Aspen

This is a type of citrus bearing small edible fruits that taste like a cross between a lime and a grapefruit with a hint of conifer. It is a rich s...

Bush Tomato | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Fruit

Warndu's Bush Tomato

Bush tomato (Desert Raisin or Kutjera) is a delight. Both savoury and sweet and packing a punch. We LOVE bush tomato and use it in everything. Th...

Kakadu Plum | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Fruit

Warndu's Kakadu Plum

We have not had a cold or flu for years because we take Australian Native Kakadu Plum (known as Gubinge, among many other names) in powder form in ...

Lemon Myrtle | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Spice

Warndu's Lemon Myrtle

Lemon Myrtle might just be one of the best known Australian Native plants. I suspect all of you would have at least heard of this beauty. The Lemo...

Strawberry Gum | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Spice

Australian Strawberry Gum

Strawberry gum is an antibiotic and powerful anti-microbial leaf with amazing protecting powers of your micro flora that lives in your gut. The pe...

Saltbush | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Greens

Saltbush - The unlikely delicacy

If you tell any farmers over the age of 60 that saltbush is now a bit of a delicacy, they would laugh in your face. A bit like the lamb shank, whic...

Quandong | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Fruit

Quandong (Urti) from the Flinders ranges in South Australia

Quandong is commonly referred to as Native peach. Our Quandong is wild harvested from the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. It reminds Damien of ...

Desert Lime | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Fruit

Warndu's Desert Lime

Like the sherbet bomb you ate as a kid! These limes are so tangy and delicious, we use them at home in everything. We have a huge container of them...

Geraldton Wax | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Greens

Warndu's Geraldton Wax

Another of our favorites. The leaves of this shrub have the most wonderful aroma and taste like a lemony pine needle. They are delicious in anythin...

Native Thyme | Warndu Australian Bush Tucker © Warndu Pty Ltd. Photographs by Luisa Brimble.

Greens

Warndu Native Thyme - one our favourite herbs

Native Thyme, sometimes called cut-leaf mint (you’ll know why when the menthol aroma hits) was used by Indigenous Australians for its medicinal pro...