Now a small plum from the Northern Territory is being used in an everyday product for a unique flavour. 



A group of Aboriginal women from the Northern Territory's Wadeye community is visiting a dairy factory in South Australia to see the fruits of their labour.

Every year the women harvest the native fruit which is now making its way into the mainstream food chain.

"It's really hard for us you know. Sometimes it's really hard. There's no transport to go out there, people walk and picking some plums, and it's really hot out there," says Maragare Perdjert of the Palngun Wurnangat Aboriginal Corporation.

The collected plums are sorted at a women's centre in Wadeye where the local community has been enjoying the fruit and its benefits for centuries.

"We use it for colds and it's good for medicine too," says Perdjert.

The Bushfood company focuses on bringing indigenous produce to mainstream consumers.

Kakadu plum yoghurt is its latest creation.

"It's a big part of what we want to do as a business, get behind an indigenous community, help build it, and in return really use the profile and the reach that we have to push out not only their community but also the stuff that they can provide," says Danyle Pearce of Something Wild.

Seven Wadeye women toured the milk factory at Myponga, south of Adelaide, where the yoghurt is being produced.

"We have the great opportunity to bring them down here and showing them the process and all their hard work and the end result," says Pearce.

"We are really excited and we got a really big surprise that there's yoghurt made out of kakadu plums, yes it's really good," says Perdjert.

For now, two hundred thousand pots of yoghurt are being manufactured to evaluate the interest in this uniquely Australian flavour, with more to come if it proves popular.

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