Food Auditor: Precision Nutrition Tracking and Dietary Optimization

SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Optimising diets to reach absolute planetary environmental sustainability through consumers

Sustainable Production and Consumption, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 28, P. 877 - 892

Published: July 6, 2021

The environmental impacts of food are currently at unsustainable levels. Consumers undoubtedly play a central role in reducing the system to more sustainable levels via dietary changes and waste reduction. Mathematical optimisation is one approach identifying less environmentally impactful patterns. A limited number studies, however, have assessed whether impact reductions offered by optimised diets enough remain within planetary boundaries (i.e. attain 'absolute' sustainability). Using UK consumption as case study, here we employ linear programming identify nutritionally adequate that meet sociocultural acceptability criteria whilst minimising (a) transgressions their allocated share safe operating space (SoSOS) for nine (PBs), (b) cost, or (c) deviation from current diet. We show diet it transgresses six seven PBs, depending on SoSOS allocation principle. Optimising minimum yields offering significant (66 - 95% reduction across all PBs) compared average pattern, but they completely mitigate depends sharing principle adopted assign national consumption. Additionally, comparing least-cost least-transgression solutions, find trade-off between cost sustainability indicating patterns not incentivised relative prices items UK. Our work demonstrates value embedding so solutions inherently provide clear-cut understanding broad implications environment.

Language: Английский

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Can micronutrient requirements be met by diets from sustainable sources: outcomes of dietary modelling studies using diet optimization

Annals of Medicine, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 56(1)

Published: Aug. 11, 2024

Background Consumption of diets from sustainable sources is required for planetary health, however, large sections the population, including females reproductive age and children, will be at risk not meeting their micronutrient (MN) requirements in a complete transition to plant-based foods. Constrained diet optimization methods use mathematical programming construct that meet predefined parameters may contribute towards modelling dietary solutions nutritional targets.

Language: Английский

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National age-specific food baskets for a healthy, sustainable, affordable, and inclusive global dietary transition

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 3, 2025

Dietary transitions face substantial economic and cultural barriers, with the absence of age-specific nutritional guidelines further impeding progress. Designing diets that are healthy sustainable, while being affordable, culturally inclusive, appropriate for specific age groups countries, remains a significant challenge. Here, we use constrained nonlinear optimization models fine-grained national intake data to design targeted food baskets address aforementioned challenges associated global dietary transitions. We demonstrate that, structural changes in (2.98 – 3.40x) would be necessary most these baskets—considering preferences conditions—can ensure all can meet needs reduce diet-related disease risk, little or no increase expenditure. Our research offers innovative recommendations healthy, inclusive across different countries groups, offering feasible pathway forward system.

Language: Английский

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Microgreens: Functional Food for Nutrition and Dietary Diversification

Plants, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 14(4), P. 526 - 526

Published: Feb. 8, 2025

Microgreens are tender, edible seedlings harvested 7–21 days after germination containing a central stem, cotyledons, and true leaves. Known as fresh, ready-to-eat functional food, they mostly rich in vitamins, antioxidants, bioactive compounds, minerals, with distinctive flavors, colors, textures. These attributes make microgreens valuable component nutrition health research. In countries like India, where low-income households spend 50–80% of their income on micronutrient deficiencies common, particularly among women. Indian women, facing double burden malnutrition, experience both underweight (18.7%) obesity (24.0%) issues, 57% suffering from anemia. Women’s unique requirements vary across life stages, infancy to elderly years, require diets vitamins minerals ensure adequacy. Microgreens, high nutrient density, hold promise addressing these deficiencies. Fresh processed based products can enhance food variety, nutritive value, appeal. Rethinking agriculture horticulture tools combat malnutrition reduce the risk non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is vital for achieving nutritional security poverty reduction. This review compiles recent research microgreens, focusing profiles, benefits, suitable crops, substrates, seed growing methods, sensory characteristics, applications fresh value-added products. It offers insights into sustainable role enhancing human health.

Language: Английский

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Exploring environmental footprints and socio-demographic characteristics of Indian diets

The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 967, P. 178781 - 178781

Published: Feb. 13, 2025

Language: Английский

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Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of emerging industrial chains within planetary boundaries: A systematic literature review

Sustainable Production and Consumption, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Subnational assessment of threats to Indian biodiversity and habitat restoration opportunities

Environmental Research Letters, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 17(5), P. 054022 - 054022

Published: March 14, 2022

Abstract The active involvement of subnational authorities, cities and local governments has been identified as one the enabling conditions to implement Convention on Biological Diversity’s Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework progress towards United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life Land). However, there not any systematic application biodiversity metric at level identify where main responsibilities opportunities lie within a country. Here, we therefore apply recently proposed species threat abatement restoration (STAR) for amphibians, birds terrestrial mammals in 36 states 666 districts India, 17 megadiverse countries. STAR takes into account endemicity scope severity all threats affecting each species’ population hosted by region can quantify potential contribution mitigation habitat particular global goals. larger score, specified area conservation. Out 97 individual found that crop production is major threat, contributing 44% total national score followed biological resource use such hunting logging (23%), residential commercial development (11%). Just seven out 66 hosting high numbers threatened endemic contribute 80% score. Importantly, with most do always overlap those will yield benefits. Our analysis demonstrates applicability value conservation elsewhere world.

Language: Английский

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The global nutrition can be greatly improved with diet optimization

Resources Conservation and Recycling, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 202, P. 107343 - 107343

Published: Dec. 2, 2023

Language: Английский

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Nutrient Adequacy of Global Food Production

Frontiers in Nutrition, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: Nov. 29, 2021

A major challenge for countries around the world is to provide a nutritionally adequate diet their population with limited available resources. comprehensive analysis that reflects adequacy of domestic food production meeting national nutritional needs in different lacking. Here we combined crop, livestock, aquaculture, and fishery statistics 191 obtained from UN FAO composition databases USDA accounted loss waste occurring at various stages calculate amounts calories 24 essential nutrients destined human consumption. We then compared quantities all population-level requirements estimated age- sex-specific intake recommendations WHO assess nutrient production. Our results show inadequate seven out (choline, calcium, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamin A, E, folate, iron) most countries, despite overall total global High-income produce dietary general, while foods produced low-income mainly comprising roots cereal products often lack important micronutrients such as choline, B12. South Asian barely fulfills half required A. study identifies target each country whose should be encouraged improving through interventions increasing or fortified are rich these not undermining local environment. This assessment can serve an evidence base nutrition-sensitive policies facilitating achievement Sustainable Development Goals zero hunger good health well-being.

Language: Английский

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