HEALTHY LIVING_2

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Future foods

Carbon foodprint of food

Plant protein

Edible insects

Edible seaweed

Sustainable diet

Environmental impact of our diet

What is a Future food

Index

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

What is a Future food?

"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

Future foods

Environmental impact of our diet

https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

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.

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

Sustainable diet, why?

Parodi et al. 2018

The Future foods from Parodi et al. 2018.

Parodi et al. 2018

LU: land use (m 2)

Parodi et al. 2018

Protein content&KgCO2e

Engaging in a more sustainable food consumption could help reduce GHG

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

Rondoni and Grasso, 2021Kuhne et al. 2023

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).

CarbonFootprintof Food

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Future foods

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

Edible seaweed

Duse FlakesMara Seaweed

Nutritional Information (100 g)

Seaweed dishes and products

Plant protein

Gibbs and Capuccio 2022.

3.- All the additional benefits to human health.

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

1.- Smaller foodprint than animal food.

Plant based diet

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

Global meat consumption has increased 3%/year since 1960

Plant based diets

https://ourworldindata.org/food-supply

Soy

Other

70-75%Feed

https://www.ecologic.eu/16618

Pulses are the perfect complement to cereals

They are a rich in protein and essential amino acids

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

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

Originated some 90 million years ago

Pulses

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

Five ways pulses impact our world

Pulses

Entomophagy

Edible insects

"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/

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

Legal or Illegal?

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

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

STEP 02

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

STEP 01

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

Preparation

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

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

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

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

"Edible insects in all forms"

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

Kids Try Foods of the future

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

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 sacks3.- Why do you think some of the children found repulsive the cricket taco?

Kids Try Foods of the future

Stephanie Wunders Ecologic Institute/Berlin

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.

• 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

Resources

Thankyou!

"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