The Dr Anneline Story
Going behind the scenes
Dr. Anneline took an unconventional path, choosing a role as a food technologist in the food industry over a graduate epidemiologist position with Queensland Health. At the time, it was almost unheard of for a nutritionist to cross into the "enemy" territory of the food sector. But she was driven by curiosity—to understand why the industry operates as it does and the challenges it faces. She believes real influence comes from seeing the world through others’ eyes, not pointing fingers from the sidelines.
At Kerry Ingredients APAC, one of the world’s largest ingredient manufacturers, Dr. Anneline worked as a quality assurance technologist. While Kerry’s name isn’t on supermarket shelves, their premixes power everyday foods like bread, sausages, protein shakes, and more. There, she mastered the complexities of food safety, quality control, regulations (national and global), supply chains, and auditing—insights that continue to shape her unique perspective on food and health.
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Bridging Science, Industry, and Communication
Dr. Anneline’s PhD combined food and nutrition science, addressing practical industry challenges. Her ability to communicate complex ideas in relatable ways earned her recognition, including winning Australia’s #1 Science Communicator award. After her PhD, Dr. Anneline worked in academia and the food industry, gaining insights into consumer behavior, food waste, and the food system’s role in health and sustainability.
A tenured position at Melbourne University
After beginning a role as an Associate Professor with The University of Canberra, Dr Anneline quickly realised that while she had jumped almost 15 years in the academic career path, she missed the thrill of discovery. Doing research in the lab. Talking to industry. Communicating, breaking down misnomers. She also didn't enjoy endless boardroom meetings or academic bureaucracy. She wanted to be a scientist. In the lab. Doing research. Talking to industry. And teaching students.
Off the back of winning Fresh Science, Dr Anneline was offered a Research Fellowship with The University of Melbourne. This entailed conducting research, teaching, media engagement, running student placements, coordinating a new industry-based degree. But after three years, and receiving tenure, Anneline was head-hunted for a secondment with a Research Development Corporation (RDC) responsible for funding research projects that could lead to practical innovations in industry. Although she was offered a permanent role with the RDC, Dr Anneline was head-hunted for a senior science and regulatory position in the nutritionals sector focusing on infants, toddlers, and young children.
A New Path: Advocacy, Thought-Leadership and Communication
In 2018, Dr. Anneline began consulting and speaking to make food and nutrition science accessible to everyone. She now works to connect policymakers, producers, and consumers, advocating for evidence-based decisions that improve public health, sustainability, and the food supply.
Through her work, Dr. Anneline empowers people to make informed choices about food, health, and the environment, breaking down silos and promoting collaboration across the food system.
Food regulators, food producers, and food eaters deserve to make evidence-based, holistic informed decisions about foods produced, and nutrition consumed.
It's not about controlling what folks can or cannot eat.
It's not about demonising foods either. I'm not the food police.
If you make marshmallows or grow carrots, it's about understanding what you are creating nutritionally, and what its role is in the diet.
It's about making informed decisions.
A redundancy leads to redirection
From first bite to the colon and our gut bacteria, the role of the digestive tract on nutrition cannot be forgotten either. And then there is the role of culture, cuisine, food ethics, the important role food plays in pleasure, comfort and celebrations that need to be considered as well.
Dr Anneline Padayachee is here to empower people to make informed decisions about their food, their health, and the environment they live in.
In 2018, Dr Anneline started consulting and speaking as a side-hustle, for fun, with the aim to make research understandable and usable to those outside of academia. However her role has morphed into food and nutrition advocacy in addition to economic value, impact on health outcomes, preservation of a food supply, and environmental longevity. Food and nutrition is complex. From farm to processor to retailer to consumer, there are so many factors at play that need to be considered that ensure a safe, accessible, affordable food supply for all. From first bite to the colon and our gut bacteria, the role of the digestive tract on nutrition cannot be forgotten either. And then there is the role of culture, cuisine, food ethics, the important role food plays in pleasure, comfort and celebrations that need to be considered as well.
Dr Anneline is here to break down the silos, connect the dots from peak bodies to policymakers to producers to consumers. Dr Anneline’s personal health journey fuels her advocacy for nutrition and the critical roles farmers and the food industry have in public health improvement.
Food regulators, food producers, and food eaters deserve to make evidence-based, holistic informed decisions about foods produced, and nutrition consumed.
It's not about controlling what folks can or cannot eat.
It's not about demonising foods either. I'm not the food police.
If you make marshmallows or grow carrots, it's about understanding what you are creating nutritionally, and what its role is in the diet.
It's about making informed decisions.
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