Nature foodPub Date : 2025-05-16DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01173-4
Jonas Stehl, Alexander Vonderschmidt, Sebastian Vollmer, Peter Alexander, Lindsay M. Jaacks
{"title":"Gap between national food production and food-based dietary guidance highlights lack of national self-sufficiency","authors":"Jonas Stehl, Alexander Vonderschmidt, Sebastian Vollmer, Peter Alexander, Lindsay M. Jaacks","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01173-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01173-4","url":null,"abstract":"In light of nationalist trends, disruptions to global food supply chains and efforts to concurrently promote sustainable diets, we assess national capacities to achieve dietary guidelines based on domestic production alone. Over a third of all countries cannot meet self-sufficiency for more than two of the seven essential food groups. Low self-sufficiency and overdependence on a few countries for imports threaten their capability to respond to global shocks, particularly for small states. Recent global disruptions have revived the food self-sufficiency debate. This study analyses countries’ trade dependencies and the discrepancy between their domestic food production and guidelines for a healthy and sustainable diet across seven essential food groups.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 6","pages":"571-576"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-025-01173-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144066298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature foodPub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01178-z
{"title":"Effects of processing on the phytochemical composition of protein-rich plant-based foods","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01178-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01178-z","url":null,"abstract":"Plant-based foods are often processed using various techniques to improve their nutritional and sensory properties by modifying their biochemical compositions. Here, the effect of different processing techniques on protein-rich plant-based foods was demonstrated using a non-targeted metabolomics approach and assessed in light of current food processing classifications.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 5","pages":"430-431"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143940240","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 : 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01180-5
{"title":"Low greenhouse gas emissions of land-based mariculture still warrant mitigation","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01180-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01180-5","url":null,"abstract":"Ever-expanding mariculture has led to substantial losses of coastal wetlands (‘blue carbon’ ecosystems). The resulting loss of carbon sequestration by these ecosystems accounts for two-thirds of the total greenhouse gas footprint from newly created mariculture, highlighting the need to fully assess the climate effects of land-based mariculture while providing mitigation opportunities.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 6","pages":"537-538"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143926731","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 : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01167-2
Andrea Borghini, Nicola Piras
{"title":"Semantic and philosophical approaches for advancing the identification and measurement of food waste","authors":"Andrea Borghini, Nicola Piras","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01167-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01167-2","url":null,"abstract":"Many global food-waste frameworks do not account for multiple concurrent factors, such as culture, time, context and the aims of the stakeholders. Using the semantic tools developed in the philosophical fields of analytic metaphysics and analytic ontology, we propose a framework to explore and document the conceptual nuances of food waste. By discussing food waste from the positions of substantivalism, adjectivalism and adverbialism, we account for the breadth of food-waste contexts to improve representation and communication in technical settings dealing with identification and measurement, such as report writing and policy development. Food waste is challenging to define and measure. Semantics and philosophy can broaden our understanding of what constitutes food waste and incorporate nuance into how we account for wasted food in reports.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 6","pages":"547-552"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143920414","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 : 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01172-5
Qingrui Wang, Qing Yang
{"title":"Pollution mitigation for agricultural machinery in China","authors":"Qingrui Wang, Qing Yang","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01172-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01172-5","url":null,"abstract":"China’s agricultural sector is undergoing rapid mechanization. Sustainable development of the sector will require low-carbon fuel substitutions and region-specific agricultural management strategies to remain within emission reduction targets.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 5","pages":"428-429"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143884648","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 : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01163-6
Minghao Zhuang, Xu Wang, Yi Yang, Yifei Wu, Ligang Wang, Xi Lu
{"title":"Agricultural machinery could contribute 20% of total carbon and air pollutant emissions by 2050 and compromise carbon neutrality targets in China","authors":"Minghao Zhuang, Xu Wang, Yi Yang, Yifei Wu, Ligang Wang, Xi Lu","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01163-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01163-6","url":null,"abstract":"Agricultural mechanization has benefitted food security in China, but carbon dioxide (CO2) and air pollutant emissions from fuel combustion are often overlooked. Here we show that emissions of CO2 and air pollutants from agricultural machinery increased nearly sevenfold and four- to sevenfold, respectively, during 1985–2020, driven largely by rapid advancement in the mechanization level. If unabated, annual emissions of CO2, PM2.5 and NOx from agricultural machinery in 2050 could reach 213.6 Mt, 55.4 Gg and 902.8 Gg, contributing ~21%, ~4% and ~17% of China’s total emissions under a dual-carbon goal scenario, respectively. However, adoption of renewable energy sources could mitigate 65–70% of these emissions. Our study highlights that China’s agricultural machinery could become a large source of emissions that—without mitigation—may hinder China’s carbon neutrality targets and degrade air quality. China’s agricultural sector continues to mechanize, but this could generate up to one-fifth of future carbon dioxide, particulate matter and nitrogen emissions. Renewable energy sources could mitigate two-thirds of these emissions.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 5","pages":"513-522"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866286","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 : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01164-5
Regan Lucas Bailey, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Patrick John Stover, Michelle Scott-Pierce, Elizabeth Fussell Racine, Heather Ann Eicher-Miller, Nadia Penrod, Bart Lynn Fischer
{"title":"Effectiveness evaluation of national nutrition education programmes must be a priority to safeguard nutrition security","authors":"Regan Lucas Bailey, Rebecca Seguin-Fowler, Patrick John Stover, Michelle Scott-Pierce, Elizabeth Fussell Racine, Heather Ann Eicher-Miller, Nadia Penrod, Bart Lynn Fischer","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01164-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01164-5","url":null,"abstract":"Nutrition education and food assistance programmes have the potential to reduce the societal burdens that disproportionately impact those living in low-resource contexts. Here, we call for a standardized evaluation framework, measures and procedures for assessing nutrition education programmes in the USA as critical for achieving nutrition security and population health while lowering the national burden of escalating healthcare costs.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 5","pages":"419-422"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143862689","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}