The international diffusion of food innovations and the nutrition transition: retrospective longitudinal evidence from country-level data, 1970–2010
Anne-Célia Disdier,
Fabrice Etilé,
Lorenzo Rotunno
Abstract:IntroductionThere is a lack of quantitative evidence on the role of food innovations—new food ingredients and processing techniques—in the nutrition transition.ObjectiveDocument the distribution of food innovations across 67 high-income (HIC) and middle-income (MIC) countries between 1970 and 2010, and its association with the nutritional composition of food supply.MethodsWe used all available data on food patents, as compiled by the European Patent Office, to measure food innovations. We considered innovation… Show more
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