Nature FoodPub Date : 2025-04-14DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01160-9
Erica L. Kenney, Mary Kathryn Poole
{"title":"Optimal nutrition for all requires a synergistic approach between food environments and food systems","authors":"Erica L. Kenney, Mary Kathryn Poole","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01160-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01160-9","url":null,"abstract":"Despite growing recognition of how food environments shape our eating behaviour, existing policy interventions to change them remain insufficient. Approaches focused on the food supply itself, driven by grassroots social change rather than solely top-down policy, are particularly important to improve diet quality.","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827464","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 : 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01165-4
Laurence Daoust
{"title":"Dietary patterns and healthy ageing","authors":"Laurence Daoust","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01165-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01165-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a recent paper published in <i>Nature Medicine</i>, Anne-Julie Tessier, from the University of Montreal, and colleagues examined the association between healthy ageing and adherence to 8 dietary patterns and ultra-processed food consumption over 30 years. Healthy ageing was defined as living to the age of 70 without the presence of 11 chronic diseases and maintaining intact physical and cognitive functions and mental health. A total of 105,015 participants from 2 large prospective cohorts of women and men from the USA were included in the study. Results were stratified according to sex, ancestry, socio-economic status and lifestyle factors.</p><p>The main findings suggest that higher adherence to all dietary patterns is associated with greater odds of healthy ageing. In particular, the Alternative Healthy Eating Index and the healthful plant-based diet showed the strongest and weakest associations with healthy ageing, respectively. With few exceptions, these associations were stronger among women, past or current smokers, participants with a body mass index greater than 25 kg m<sup>–2</sup> and participants with a level of physical activity below the median. Higher ultra-processed food consumption was also found to be associated with lower odds of reaching the age of 70 years and maintaining mental health and physical and cognitive functions. Given the challenge of informing the development of dietary guidelines for healthy ageing, this work provides more specific insights into what constitutes an optimal dietary pattern.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143805834","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 : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01157-4
Antoine Couëdel, Romulo P. Lollato, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Fatima A. Tenorio, Fernando Aramburu-Merlos, Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, Patricio Grassini
{"title":"Statistical approaches are inadequate for accurate estimation of yield potential and gaps at regional level","authors":"Antoine Couëdel, Romulo P. Lollato, Sotirios V. Archontoulis, Fatima A. Tenorio, Fernando Aramburu-Merlos, Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, Patricio Grassini","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01157-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01157-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accurate spatial information on yield potential and gaps is key to determine crop production potential. Although statistical methods are widely used to estimate these parameters at regional to global levels, a rigorous evaluation of their performance is lacking. Here we compared outcomes derived from four published statistical approaches based on highest average farmer yields over time and space against those derived from a ‘bottom-up’ approach based on crop modelling and local weather and soil data for major rain-fed crops in the United States. Statistical methods failed to capture spatial variation in water-limited yield potential, consistently under- or overestimating yield gaps across regions. Statistical methods led to conflicting results, with production potential almost doubling from one method to another. We emphasize the need for well-validated crop models coupled with local data, robust spatial frameworks and extrapolation methods to provide more reliable assessments of production potential from local to regional scales.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"129 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143798059","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":"Foregone carbon sequestration dominates greenhouse gas footprint in aquaculture associated with coastal wetland conversion","authors":"Junji Yuan, Yanhong Dong, Junjie Li, Deyan Liu, Jian Xiang, Tiehu He, Hojeong Kang, Weixin Ding","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01156-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01156-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coastal wetlands offer large carbon sequestration benefits but their conversion to aquaculture systems could result in substantial carbon losses. Here we show that the conversion of <i>Spartina alterniflora</i> salt marsh to mariculture ponds in China generated a greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint of 20.3 Mg CO<sub>2</sub> equivalent per ha per year. Around two-thirds of the footprint can be attributed to foregone salt marsh GHG mitigation capacity, whereas direct carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emissions in mariculture ponds account for only ~10%, with the remaining ~20% arising from feed, fertilizer and energy consumption. Aquaculture can offer comparatively lower GHG footprints than other animal protein sources, such as terrestrial beef and small ruminants’ production on a kg CO<sub>2</sub> equivalent per kg protein basis, but this assumption may not be accurate when considering landscape-scale changes in GHG budgets, particularly in relation to the expansion of aquaculture within blue carbon ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19090,"journal":{"name":"Nature Food","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143766411","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 : 2025-04-02DOI: 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}