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Looking into the Future of Foods and Health
J Bruce German
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis CA, United States of America
Abstract
The health of the population is compromised by poor dietary choices. Resolving this situation will require a substantial investment at many levels of science, agriculture and food industrialisation. If such investments are undertaken they will provide the opportunity to change the food marketplace from a product centric, to a consumer centric, strategy competing to deliver health benefits to individuals.
Keywords
food, health, assessment, personalising, metabolomics, food reformulation
Article Text
The food industry has a unifying goal to deliver to the marketplace safe, convenient, affordable and delicious food products that provide consumers the means to assemble the diets that maintain and improve their health. Scientific research has built considerable basic knowledge that has been instrumental in achieving this goal. Examples of prior success abound, from the scientific discoveries of the essential nutrients to the engineering of unit operations that ensure the reliable and controlled lethality of potential food borne pathogens in food processing lines. This knowledge ensured that the population consumed foods that provided all of the essential nutrients within a normal diet and was protected from the broad range of food borne microbial pathogens in the environment. The overall success of the industrial translation of this science is illustrated by the observation that most of the Western population is now unaware of, that is, has never seen the phenotypes of diseases caused by classic deficiency diseases, iodine – goitre, vitamin C – scurvy, vitamin A – blindness, and rarely experiences food borne illness from the consumption of industrialised foods.
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