Pub Date : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01200-4
Unsafe food impairs human and economic development. Nature Food welcomes research on the causes of food safety issues and potential solutions aligned with the One Health approach.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01182-3
Pasquale De Vita, Bruno Basso
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Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01187-y
Michael J. Gidley
Foods and diets form the basis for preventative approaches that reduce dependence on health systems and improve human wellbeing. Current food labelling is out of step with healthy diet recommendations but could be improved by including predicted nutrient release rates alongside nutrient contents. These rates can help quantify the effects of food processing on nutritional value and identify the fraction of food-derived nutrients available for nourishing the gut microbiota.
{"title":"Nutrition labelling of foods should incorporate nutrient release rates","authors":"Michael J. Gidley","doi":"10.1038/s43016-025-01187-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43016-025-01187-y","url":null,"abstract":"Foods and diets form the basis for preventative approaches that reduce dependence on health systems and improve human wellbeing. Current food labelling is out of step with healthy diet recommendations but could be improved by including predicted nutrient release rates alongside nutrient contents. These rates can help quantify the effects of food processing on nutritional value and identify the fraction of food-derived nutrients available for nourishing the gut microbiota.","PeriodicalId":94151,"journal":{"name":"Nature food","volume":"6 6","pages":"528-530"},"PeriodicalIF":21.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144278729","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}
Pub Date : 2025-06-13DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01188-x
Yang Zhan, Zhilin Guo, Joel Podgorski, Zhengzhong Zeng, Peng Xu, Liqing Peng, Kewei Chen, Rixin Wu, Chen Ding, Charles Andrews, Vladan Babovic, Chunmiao Zheng
Large-scale, centralized livestock production is recognized as a significant contributor to environmental pollution, including groundwater contamination. Here we assess the impact of traditional meat production on nitrate contamination in groundwater across the contiguous USA from 1985 to 2020. In addition, we evaluate potential changes in groundwater quality resulting from the substitution of traditional meat sources with three alternative meat options. We find that substituting 10% of the protein intake from conventional meat sources with meat alternatives can lead to an average reduction of 3.4%, 10.7% and 4.5% in the required nitrogen fertilizer, manure and water footprint, respectively. This substitution could potentially decrease the risk of groundwater nitrate exceedance (concentration exceeding 10 mg l−1 as N) by up to ~20%. These results highlight the potential of long-term dietary shifts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and support other SDG targets. Most studies on the potential of meat alternatives to mitigate environmental pollution look at greenhouse gas emissions, but groundwater quality remains understudied. Using a groundwater nitrate pollution risk assessment model, this study estimates the benefits of a shift away from beef, poultry and pork in the USA over 1985–2020.
大规模、集中的畜牧生产被认为是造成包括地下水污染在内的环境污染的一个重要因素。在这里，我们评估了传统肉类生产对1985年至2020年美国连续地下水硝酸盐污染的影响。此外，我们评估了用三种替代肉类选择替代传统肉类来源所导致的地下水质量的潜在变化。我们发现，用肉类替代品替代10%的传统肉类蛋白质摄入量，可导致所需氮肥、粪便和水足迹分别平均减少3.4%、10.7%和4.5%。这种替代可以潜在地降低地下水硝酸盐超标（浓度超过10 mg l - 1作为N）的风险高达20%。这些结果突出了长期饮食转变在实现可持续发展目标6和支持其他可持续发展目标方面的潜力。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01179-y
Margarita Garcia-Vila, Murilo dos Santos Vianna, Matthew Tom Harrison, Ke Liu, Rogério de S. Nóia-Júnior, Tobias K. D. Weber, Jin Zhao, Marco Acutis, Sotirios Archontoulis, Senthold Asseng, Pierre Aubry, Juraj Balkovic, Bruno Basso, Xianguan Chen, Yi Chen, Quirijn de Jong van Lier, Mathieu Delandmeter, Allard de Wit, Benjamin Dumont, Roberto Ferrise, Christian Folberth, Mara Gabbrielli, Thomas Gaiser, Aram Gorooei, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, Yean-Uk Kim, David Kraus, Bing Liu, Lioba Martin, Klaas Metselaar, Claas Nendel, Gloria Padovan, Alessia Perego, Diana Maria Seserman, Clemens Scheer, Vakhtang Shelia, Valentina Stocca, Fulu Tao, Enli Wang, Heidi Webber, Zhigan Zhao, Yan Zhu, Taru Palosuo
With the changing climate, soil waterlogging is a growing threat to food security. Yet, contemporary approaches employed in crop models to simulate waterlogging are in their infancy. By analysing 21 crop models, we show that critical deficiencies persist in accurately simulating capillary rise, crop resistance to transient periods of waterlogging, crop recovery mechanisms, and the effects on soil nitrogen processes, phenology and yield components. This hinders the ability of such models to reliably simulate the impacts of excessive soil moisture. Advanced crop modelling analytics will enable scenario analysis and, with time, farming systems adaptation to climate change and increasing frequency of crop failure due to waterlogging. Waterlogging threatens global crop production, yet it remains under-represented in agricultural impact assessments and crop models. This Review examines 21 crop models, identifying limitations in how they simulate waterlogging and coupled soil–crop processes. It also proposes pathways to enhance model accuracy for better agricultural adaptation and management.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01186-z
Joann K. Whalen, Shamim Gul
Healthy, fertile soil helps reduce nitrogen surpluses, increase carbon sequestration and is the foundation of a nutritious food supply for healthy people on a healthy planet.
健康、肥沃的土壤有助于减少氮过剩，增加碳固存，是健康地球上健康人群营养食物供应的基础。
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Pub Date : 2025-06-02DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01176-1
Benjamin H. Parmenter, Alysha S. Thompson, Nicola P. Bondonno, Amy Jennings, Kevin Murray, Aurora Perez-Cornago, Jonathan M. Hodgson, Anna Tresserra-Rimbau, Tilman Kühn, Aedín Cassidy
Higher habitual intakes of dietary flavonoids have been linked with a lower risk of all-cause mortality and major chronic disease. Yet, the contribution of diversity of flavonoid intake to health outcomes remains to be investigated. Here, using a cohort of 124,805 UK Biobank participants, we show that participants who consumed the widest diversity of dietary flavonoids, flavonoid-rich foods and/or specific flavonoid subclasses had a 6–20% significantly lower risk of all-cause mortality and incidence of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, respiratory disease and neurodegenerative disease. Furthermore, we report that both quantity and diversity of flavonoids are independent predictors of mortality and several chronic diseases, suggesting that consuming a higher quantity and wider diversity is better for longer-term health than either component alone. These findings suggest that consuming several different daily servings of flavonoid-rich foods or beverages, such as tea, berries, apples, oranges or grapes, may lower risk of all-cause mortality and chronic disease. The intake of polyphenolic compounds is part of a healthy diet, but the contribution of a diversity of flavonoids to health outcomes remains unknown. This study shows that participants in the UK Biobank cohort with the greatest diversity of flavonoid intake had a 6–20% lower risk of all-cause mortality and major chronic diseases.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-30DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01183-2
Daniel P. Bebber
El Niño indirectly moderates rice yields in China through effects on migratory pests, highlighting the need to incorporate transboundary ecological processes into climate risk assessments and agricultural forecasting.
El Niño通过对迁徙害虫的影响间接调节了中国的水稻产量，这凸显了将跨境生态过程纳入气候风险评估和农业预测的必要性。
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Pub Date : 2025-05-27DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01177-0
Anna W. Herforth, Yan Bai, Aishwarya Venkat, William A. Masters
The Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) is a standard developed from food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) for the measurement of the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet—a new indicator of food security tracked by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank. Here we analysed the HDB’s economic, nutritional and environmental characteristics of least-cost diets relative to 16 national FBDG and the EAT-Lancet reference diet. The HDB cost averaged US$3.68 per person per day in 2021, slightly lower than most FBDG. Macronutrient levels fell within acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges, and the average mean adequacy ratio of 15 micronutrients and protein was 95% for the HDB, equivalent to the average mean adequacy ratio across FBDG. The HDB’s carbon and water footprints were found to be similar to the EAT-Lancet reference diet. These findings demonstrate the use of the HDB as a global standard and highlight the lack of access to healthy and sustainable diets globally. The Healthy Diet Basket (HDB) is used for the measurement of Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet globally. This analysis compares the economic, nutritional and environmental characteristics of least-cost diets following the HDB with national food-based dietary guidelines and the EAT-Lancet diet, demonstrating the use of the HDB as a global standard of healthy and sustainable diets.
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Pub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1038/s43016-025-01174-3
Jeroen Candel, Carsten Daugbjerg
The European Commission’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies were widely praised as important steps towards a healthier and more sustainable EU food system. Although this agenda was seen by some as a leap towards increased post-exceptionalism in EU agri-food policy-making, recent political backlash against the Green Deal’s food system ambitions has called into question whether such a post-exceptionalist breakthrough has indeed occurred. Here, we systematically analyse recent shifts in EU agri-food governance across four dimensions of (post-)exceptionalism: ideas, institutions, interests and policies. Despite a diversification of food system sustainability concerns in policy debates, along with some institutional opening and broader consultations with interest groups, we show that policy transformations were very limited—leaving space for emerging political tensions and increasing pressure for deeper post-exceptionalist reform in EU agri-food policies. The European Commission’s Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies, considered important steps in the pursuit of healthier and more sustainable food systems, now face political backlash. To understand this process and its impact, this study analyses recent shifts in EU agri-food governance across four dimensions of (post-)exceptionalism: ideas, institutions, interests and policies.
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