HEALTHY LIVING_2

Future foods

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Index

Carbon foodprint of food

What is a Future food

Edible seaweed

Environmental impact of our diet

Plant protein

Sustainable diet

Edible insects

What is a Future food?

https://www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/future-food/

Future foods

"Those foods for which our ability to produce considerable volumes is rapidly developing as a result of technology developments that offer the potential to scale production levels up and/or reduce the production costs out of concern for the environment"Parodi et al. 2018 p. 782

Environmental impact of our diet

https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

Sustainable diet

Sustainable diet.

"Sustainable Healthy Diets are dietary patterns that promote all dimensions of individuals’ health and wellbeing; have low environmental pressure and impact; are accessible, affordable, safe and equitable; and are culturally acceptable". FAO, 2019

Sustainable diet, why?

Sustainable diet transition is not only to tackle the environmental impact of how we eat but also to face the “Globesity” World’s epidemic of obesity.

Sustainable diet, why?

Scotland has 29% of the adult population obese. This epidemic is extremely expensive, it is costing lives due to the complications of diabetes type 2, cardiovascular disease, and cancer among others. These health conditions had an associated cost of £4.6 billion per year in 2014

The Future foods from Parodi et al. 2018.

Parodi et al. 2018

LU: land use (m 2)

Parodi et al. 2018

Protein content& KgCO2e

Parodi et al. 2018

Engaging in a more sustainable food consumption could help reduce GHG

Carbon Footprint of Food, defined as “a measure of the total emission of carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide and methane) caused by a particular product throughout its life cycle” (Thøgersen and Nielsen, 2016).

Carbon Footprint of Food

https://myemissions.green/food-carbon-footprint-calculator/

Rondoni and Grasso, 2021 Kuhne et al. 2023

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Future foods

Edible seaweed

Edible seaweed

• Blue-green: Chlorella and spirulina

• Brown coloured: arame, wakame, sugar kelp and kombu

• Green coloured: sea grapes and sea lettuce

• Red coloured: Nori, dulse and Irish moss

Duse FlakesMara Seaweed

Nutritional Information (100 g)

Seaweed dishes and products

Plant protein

1.- Smaller foodprint than animal food.

2.- "The least sustainable cereal/vegatable causes less environmental harm than the lowest impact on meat and dairy products"

Plant based diet

3.- All the additional benefits to human health.

Gibbs and Capuccio 2022.

Plant based diets

Global meat consumption has increased 3%/year since 1960

https://youtu.be/hwoL6hWd4l0?si=BkRcyf-VFJsrG_C4

https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

Soy

Other

70-75%Feed

https://www.ecologic.eu/16618

Pulses

Originated some 90 million years ago

The Fabaceae family contains over 20 000 species and 700 genera.

They are a rich in protein and essential amino acids

Pulses are the perfect complement to cereals

https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=3c37a47f-228c-4bdc-b8a5-593759464eb4

Five ways pulses impact our world

https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en?details=3c37a47f-228c-4bdc-b8a5-593759464eb4

Pulses

Edible insects

Entomophagy

Legal or Illegal?

"Selling insects for human consumption in the UK effectively became illegal at the end of the Brexit transition period in December 2020...

"It wasn’t until October 2022 that the Food Standards Agency introduced transitional measures allowing businesses to continue trading while they applied for a novel food authorisation. They now have until December 2023 to apply".

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23580005.brexit-squash-scotlands-edible-insect-industry/

Feed required/ edibility

VS

https://www.coursera.org/learn/edible-insects/lecture/W40UB/4-2-the-environmental-cost-of-meat

Land required/ Carbone

VS

https://www.coursera.org/learn/edible-insects/lecture/W40UB/4-2-the-environmental-cost-of-meat

Preparation

STEP 01

STEP 02

Remove legs and wings: crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids.Optional

Clear their gut: Orthoptera, are prived from food one day to empty their guts. Caterpillars have their gut contents squeezed out of them .

https://www.coursera.org/learn/edible-insects/lecture/W40UB/4-2-the-environmental-cost-of-meat

"Edible insects in all forms"

https://www.eatgrub.co.uk/insect-recipes/

IKEA who is interested in insect burgers and put them on their “future food” menu.

https://www.jiminis.com/en/blog/insect-burger-recipe/

https://www.jiminis.com/en/blog/ikea-created-an-insect-burger/

Kids Try Foods of the future

https://edpuzzle.com/media/65118c8167b2a23fe6294590

Kids Try Foods of the future

1.- Did you identify with any child in the video?2.- Which one looked acceptable for you, the DLT sandwich, Cricket taco, BBQ Jackfruit sandwich, or the water sacks 3.- Why do you think some of the children found repulsive the cricket taco?

https://edpuzzle.com/media/65118c8167b2a23fe6294590

Changing diets is the more important leverage to make the future global food system resilient and sustainable and that approaches such as nudging are still underrepresented in political discussions compared to the focus on increasing agricultural production.

Stephanie Wunders Ecologic Institute/Berlin

Resources

• Parodi, A. et al. 2018. The potential of future foods for sustainable and healthy diets. Nature Sustainability. 1, 782–789.

• Rondoni, A. and Grasso S. 2021. Consumers behaviour towards carbon footprint labels on food: A review of the literature and discussion of industry implications. Journal of Cleaner Production 301, 1-10
• Kühne J.S. et al. 2023. Can carbon labels encourage green food choices?. Front. Psychol. 13.
• Plant-Based Dietary Patterns for Human and Planetary Health
• Joshua G., Cappuccio, F.P. 2022. Plant-Based Dietary Patterns for Human and Planetary Health
• Nutrients. 14(8): 1614.

• Published online 2022 Apr 13. doi: 10.3390/nu14081614 Thogersen, J., Nielsen, K.S., 2016. A better carbon footprint label. J.Clean. Prod. 125, 86-94.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46459714
• https://youtu.be/hwoL6hWd4l0?si=BkRcyf-VFJsrG_C4
• Food carbon footprint calculator - My Emissions
• Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint? - BBC News
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1DQMlgoeTI
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/edible-insects/lecture/W40UB/4-2-the-environmental-cost-of-

Resources

• https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply
• https://www.nutrition.org.uk/healthy-sustainable-diets/protein/?level=Consumer
• https://www.eatgrub.co.uk/
• https://www.fao.org/3/ca6640en/ca6640en.pdf

Thank you!

"assessing social and environmental aspects and economic costs of emergent foods is important for evaluating their long-term sustainability".

N"utrition is the main function of foods, and good nutrition is a dimension of food security and sustainability"

Fasolin et al, 2019