30 May New assessment of fungal disease in crops
Read the article Antimicrobial resistance is a well-known and pressing issue for human and animal health. While bacteria...
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23 May Are plant-based diets inherently healthy?
Read the article “Plant-based diets” is a term without a formal definition, commonly encompassing flexitarian, vegetarian, and vegan...
04 May Nutrition metrics: the challenge of simplifying complexity
In a previous Thought for Food article, we explored nLCA (nutritional life cycle assessments). nCLA couple nutrition...
26 Apr Assessing vegan and vegetarian diet quality with food pattern models
Read the article Dietary patterns can be created with food pattern modelling to estimate the quantity of different...
04 Apr Identifying nutrient gaps in EAT-Lancet planetary health diet
Read the article In 2019, the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems released their report,...
07 Mar Assessing the role of animal-sourced foods in healthy and sustainable diets
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in Animal Food Sources, Climate, Diet, Food Systems, Health, Livestock, Nutrition, Sustainability
Read the article Animal-sourced foods, like meat, fish, eggs and dairy, are part of human diets all over...
07 Feb Attempting to capture the total footprint of food production
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in Climate, Energy Consumption, Food Systems, Health, Knowledge Hub, Livestock, Production, Sustainability
Read article Published in Nature Sustainability, a recent paper has attempted a finer-grained quantification of the environmental...
13 Dec Burden of Proof studies released
Read article Proving links between health outcomes and diet is a challenging task, and linking to consumption of...
06 Dec Putting a front on nutrition labels
Read Article The purpose of nutrition labels on food packaging is to provide information to help consumers...
29 Nov Modelling nutrient trade in the Pacific
Food imported from overseas features in the diets of almost everyone, and food trade has an important...