Comparison of Environmental Impact and Nutritional Quality among a European Sample Population – findings from the Food4Me study

Walker, Christie; Gibney, Eileen R.; Hellweg, Stefanie

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20391-4

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“…Dietary quality scores, such as the DHD15, are suited to combine health aspects of diets and environmental impact, but choosing the most suitable method is of major importance because it can influence the results [2]. Previous studies showed inverse associations between food-based diet quality scores and GHG emissions [33,36,39,40], and no clear association between nutrient-based diet quality scores and GHG emissions [13,41,42]. In our study, we used a food-based quality score to investigate the association between health aspects of diet and GHG emissions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Blue Water Use of Dutch Diets and Its Association with Health

Vellinga

Kamp

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Food consumption patterns affect the environment as well as public health, and monitoring is needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Dutch food consumption patterns for environmental (greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and blue water use) and health aspects (Dutch Healthy Diet index 2015), according to age, gender, and consumption moments. Food consumption data for 4313 Dutch participants aged 1 to 79 years were assessed in 2012 to 2016, by two non-consecutive 24-h recalls. The environmental impact of foods was quantified using a life cycle assessment for, e.g., indicators of GHG emissions and blue water use. The healthiness of diet, operationalized by the Dutch Healthy Diet index 2015, was assessed for 2078 adults aged ≥19 years. The average daily diet in the Netherlands was associated with 5.0 ± 2.0 kg CO2-equivalents of GHG emissions and 0.14 ± 0.08 m3 of blue water use. Meat, dairy and non-alcoholic beverages contributed most to GHG emissions, and non-alcoholic beverages, fruits, and meat to blue water use. More healthy diets were associated with a lower GHG emission and higher blue water use. Different associations of environmental indicators (GHG emissions and blue water use) with health aspects of diets need to be considered when aligning diets for health and sustainability.

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Blue Water Use of Dutch Diets and Its Association with Health

Vellinga

Kamp

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…Given that relative ranking between food items does not always clearly help inform dietary shifts, comparing the environmental impacts of diets (i.e., what is consumed on average per day), has become another common way of assessing the environmental impacts of food consumption [7,8,16,17]. Detailed data (e.g., average quantities of food types consumed per day in a country) on different dietary patterns such as vegan (no animal products), vegetarian (no meat products), and even the average diet are largely missing.…”

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Comparing the Environmental Impacts of Meatless and Meat-Containing Meals in the United States

Ernstoff

Tu²,

Faist

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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This study compares the environmental impacts of meatless and meat-containing meals in the United States according to consumption data in order to identify commercial opportunities to lower environmental impacts of meals. Average consumption of meal types (breakfast, lunch, dinner) were assessed using life cycle assessment. Retail and consumer wastes, and weight losses and gains through cooking, were used to adjust the consumption quantities to production quantities. On average, meatless meals had more than a 40% reduction in environmental impacts than meat-containing meals for any of the assessed indicators (carbon footprint, water use, resource consumption, health impacts of pollution, and ecosystem quality). At maximum and minimum for carbon footprint, meat-containing dinners were associated with 5 kgCO2e and meatless lunches 1 kg CO2e. Results indicate that, on average in the US, meatless meals lessen environmental impacts in comparison to meat-containing meals; however, animal products (i.e., dairy) in meatless meals also had a substantial impact. Findings suggest that industrial interventions focusing on low-impact meat substitutes for dinners and thereafter lunches, and low-impact dairy substitutes for breakfasts, offer large opportunities for improving the environmental performance of the average diet.

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“…[1] In addition, personalized food processing; reformulation as an example, can lead to more resource effective production of food with lower food wastes. [2] The growing trend in waste production in the agricultural food industry is a major global issue in view of its storage, disposal and environmental and potential health risks. Nevertheless, residues or by-products are an innovative way towards industrial growth and waste management to recover the added-value substances using inexpensive raw materials.…”

Section: Achieving Sustainable Health Through Healthy Foods With Lowementioning

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Using Date Seed Powder Nanoparticles and Infusion as a Sustainable Source of Nutraceuticals

Salama¹,

Ismael²,

Megeed³

2019

JFNS

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Egypt is the world's largest date producing country. Different functional foods pertaining to date seeds were attempted before. Phenolic phytochemicals are not well absorbed in gastrointestinal tract, which results in lower bioactivity. Nanotechnology helps to resolve poor oral bioavailability. Aim was to evaluate the in-vivo anti-inflammatory properties of date seed powder (DSP) nanoparticles (NPs) and infusion in rats fed a high fat diet (HFD). Twenty five Wistar rats were distributed among five groups; I (control), II (on HFD), III (on HFD and DSPNP1 1:5), IV (on HFD and DSPNP2 2:3), and V (on HFD and DSP infusion 1g/kg/day). Blood samples were tested for C-reactive protein (CRP), Serum amyloid-A (SAA), total cholesterol, HDL, albumin, creatinine, and some primary biochemical parameters. HFD induced significant elevations in cholesterol and inflammatory markers as compared to the controls; while, HDL, ALT, AST, creatinine and albumin showed no change in all rats. In all DSP treatment groups, total cholesterol levels were reduced significantly. Both DSP NPs and infusion caused significant decrease in CRP and SAA levels. DSP NPs exhibited the same anti-inflammatory effects as their free counterparts. Using polyvinyl alcohol NPs of DSP in a wt/wt ratio of 2 PVA: 3 DSP; resulted in an acceptable particle size and physicochemical properties.

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Comparison of Environmental Impact and Nutritional Quality among a European Sample Population – findings from the Food4Me study

Cited by 41 publications

References 56 publications

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Blue Water Use of Dutch Diets and Its Association with Health

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Blue Water Use of Dutch Diets and Its Association with Health

Comparing the Environmental Impacts of Meatless and Meat-Containing Meals in the United States

Using Date Seed Powder Nanoparticles and Infusion as a Sustainable Source of Nutraceuticals

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