Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-04-02DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01139-6
Cameron Wagg, Tandra Fraser
{"title":"Microbial resistance in agricultural subsoils","authors":"Cameron Wagg, Tandra Fraser","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01139-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01139-6","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural subsoils are susceptible to multiple global change factors such as warming, nutrient enrichment and intensive land management practices. Understanding how the preservation of subsoil biodiversity and its functioning can be maintained through the management of plants remains to be discovered.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01153-8
Minghao Zhuang, Yi Yang
{"title":"Towards sustainable aquaculture systems in China","authors":"Minghao Zhuang, Yi Yang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01153-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01153-8","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental performance varies widely between different aquaculture production systems in China. Promoting strategies that have smaller footprints can improve the environmental sustainability of aquaculture and contribute to more sustainable agrifood systems.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143723129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Food loss and waste valorization offers a sustainable source of biopolymers in bioinks for 3D printing","authors":"Meysam Madadi, Hamid Amiri, Junting Pan, Guojie Song, Dan Liu, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Meisam Tabatabaei","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01146-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01146-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Food loss and waste (FLW) valorization remains challenging due to mixed properties and composition arising from seasonal and regional variations in food production. Here we examine the capacities of 3D printing for valorizing FLW streams, with a focus on FLW-based bioinks. We consider how waste management practices, 3D printing technology and emerging FLW valorization techniques could address challenges concerning raw material sourcing, improved material printability and suitable mechanical properties. Bioink ingredients incorporating biologically active compounds derived from FLW streams could offer tailored functionalities, supporting food preservation and economic, health and environmental sustainability benefits in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143712812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01150-x
Yunhu Gao, André Cabrera Serrenho, Wei Wei
{"title":"Ammonia decarbonization requires region-specific interventions","authors":"Yunhu Gao, André Cabrera Serrenho, Wei Wei","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01150-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01150-x","url":null,"abstract":"Mitigating climate change and ensuring food security require a reconfiguration of the ammonia supply chain through a holistic and region-specific mitigation strategy.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143703133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01148-5
Jasmin Raita, Hany Ahmed, Kang Chen, Veera Houttu, Retu Haikonen, Anna Kårlund, Maaria Kortesniemi, Baoru Yang, Ville Koistinen, Kati Hanhineva
{"title":"Existing food processing classifications overlook the phytochemical composition of processed plant-based protein-rich foods","authors":"Jasmin Raita, Hany Ahmed, Kang Chen, Veera Houttu, Retu Haikonen, Anna Kårlund, Maaria Kortesniemi, Baoru Yang, Ville Koistinen, Kati Hanhineva","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01148-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01148-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>According to existing food processing classification systems, plant-based protein-rich (PBPR) foods are often considered ‘ultra-processed’—and therefore perceived as unhealthy—despite their ability to provide various bioactive compounds beneficial for human health. Here we used a non-targeted metabolomics approach to analyse the impact of processing on the biochemical composition of PBPR foods. Our results show that existing food classification systems may provide questionable categories for PBPR foods without considering their overall biochemical composition, including phytochemicals. An analysis focusing specifically on biochemical compounds of soy-based products manufactured using various technologies showed no clear distinctions between processing groups in the principal component analysis based on the NOVA and Poti classification. However, clear differences were found between soy-based products based on their phytochemical profile. Although food processing classification systems are welcome in their attempt to guide consumers towards healthy choices, they should be improved to more accurately reflect the biochemical composition of PBPR foods.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01149-4
Hao Zhao, Jinfeng Chang
{"title":"Turning food waste into climate solutions","authors":"Hao Zhao, Jinfeng Chang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01149-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01149-4","url":null,"abstract":"As global food loss and waste continue to rise, innovative recycling strategies are urgently needed. A new study highlights that the transition from landfill disposal to a circular bioeconomy can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve sustainability in food systems.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"123 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01147-6
Giles T. Hanley-Cook, Jill Deygers, Aisling J. Daly, Jeroen Berden, Roseline Remans, Celine Termote, Daniel B. Ibsen, Julia Baudry, Patrick Van Damme, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Paolo Vineis, Matthias B. Schulze, Ky The Hoang, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Alicia Heath, Christina C. Dahm, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Guri Skeie, Marcela Guevara, Lorenzo Milani, Daniela Penafiel, Jessica E. Raneri, Francis Odhiambo Oduor, Danny Hunter, Disna Ratnasekera, Kris A. Murray, Mathilde Touvier, Inge Huybrechts, Carl Lachat
{"title":"Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts","authors":"Giles T. Hanley-Cook, Jill Deygers, Aisling J. Daly, Jeroen Berden, Roseline Remans, Celine Termote, Daniel B. Ibsen, Julia Baudry, Patrick Van Damme, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Paolo Vineis, Matthias B. Schulze, Ky The Hoang, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Alicia Heath, Christina C. Dahm, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Guri Skeie, Marcela Guevara, Lorenzo Milani, Daniela Penafiel, Jessica E. Raneri, Francis Odhiambo Oduor, Danny Hunter, Disna Ratnasekera, Kris A. Murray, Mathilde Touvier, Inge Huybrechts, Carl Lachat","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01147-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01147-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ecological diversity indices such as Hill numbers have been developed to estimate effective species numbers, yet the ability of Hill numbers to compare food biodiversity across contexts is unclear. Here we computed the between- and within-country variability of similarity-insensitive Hill numbers using dietary intake collected from prospective cohorts in nine European countries and cross-sectional studies in five low- and middle-income countries. We also assessed the relationships between more biodiverse diets, mortality rates and micronutrient adequacy. Only Hill<sub>0</sub>, better known as dietary species richness (DSR), showed strong heterogeneity between countries and individuals within countries. Higher DSR was most strongly associated with lower mortality rates in Europe as compared to Hill<sub>1</sub>, Hill<sub>2</sub> and Hill<sub>∞</sub>, whereas relationships with micronutrient adequacy were comparable across Hill numbers in the global south. DSR can be used to assess progress towards more biodiverse diets, while also serving as a marker for the deleterious nutrition and health impacts associated with non-diverse diets.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-21DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01133-y
Caroline H. Gebara, Etienne Berthet, Madeleine I. D. Vandenabeele, Olivier Jolliet, Alexis Laurent
{"title":"Diets can be consistent with planetary limits and health targets at the individual level","authors":"Caroline H. Gebara, Etienne Berthet, Madeleine I. D. Vandenabeele, Olivier Jolliet, Alexis Laurent","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01133-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01133-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Progress towards eliminating hunger and promoting sustainable diets is lagging, with food systems damaging ecosystems and over 700 million people undernourished. Here we develop a linear programming model that identifies food combinations that satisfy both environmental and nutritional constraints. Using US-specific data, the model considers the environmental and nutritional characteristics of more than 2,500 food items consumed in the USA, optimizing diets based on the healthy life gained from the Health Nutritional Index. Aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C target, various diets are found to offer up to 700 min of healthy life gained per week, while reducing climate impacts by a factor of seven. Vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian diets that limit meat consumption to 255 g per week (pork and poultry) best met environmental and nutritional constraints. Grains, legumes and nuts were the primary protein sources. These diets provide a range of specific options for consumers and actionable targets for policy recommendations.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01159-2
John Ingram, William Bellotti, Mike Brklacich, Thom Achterbosch, Bálint Balázs, Martin Banse, Simon Fielke, Line Gordon, Saher Hasnain, Lieve Herman, Rebecca Kanter, William Kaye-Blake, Jerome Mounsey, Anne Pihlanto, Allyson Quinlan, Johan Six, Rike Stotten, Thomas Tomich, Attila Tóth, Carolina Yacamán, Monika Zurek
{"title":"Author Correction: Further concepts and approaches for enhancing food system resilience","authors":"John Ingram, William Bellotti, Mike Brklacich, Thom Achterbosch, Bálint Balázs, Martin Banse, Simon Fielke, Line Gordon, Saher Hasnain, Lieve Herman, Rebecca Kanter, William Kaye-Blake, Jerome Mounsey, Anne Pihlanto, Allyson Quinlan, Johan Six, Rike Stotten, Thomas Tomich, Attila Tóth, Carolina Yacamán, Monika Zurek","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01159-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01159-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Correction to: <i>Nature Food</i> https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00762-5, published online 31 May 2023.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143641111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-03-17DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01137-8
Madeleine Fairbairn, Hilary Oliva Faxon, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Kelly Bronson, Zenia Kish, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Jane Ezirigwe, Selamawit Abdella, Chidi Oguamanam, Matthew A. Schnurr
{"title":"Digital agriculture will perpetuate injustice unless led from the grassroots","authors":"Madeleine Fairbairn, Hilary Oliva Faxon, Maywa Montenegro de Wit, Kelly Bronson, Zenia Kish, Sarah-Louise Ruder, Jane Ezirigwe, Selamawit Abdella, Chidi Oguamanam, Matthew A. Schnurr","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01137-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01137-8","url":null,"abstract":"Situating digital agriculture within recent histories of uneven agrarian development reveals its potential to perpetuate injustice. To avoid this outcome, we argue for innovation processes that centre the needs, knowledge and priorities of communities who work the land.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143635133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}