Environmental pressures and pesticide exposure associated with an increase in the share of plant-based foods in the diet.

ABSTRACT: Diets rich in plant-based foods are encouraged for human health and to preserve resources and the environment but the nutritional quality and safety of such diets is debated. This study aimed to model nutritionally adequate diets with increasing plant food content and to characterise the derived diets using a multicriteria approach including, nutrients intake, environmental pressures and exposure to pesticides. Using data of the NutriNet-Santé cohort (N = 29,413), we implemented stepwise optimization models to identified maximum plant-food content under nutritional constraints. Environmental indicators at the production level were derived from the DIALECTE database, and exposure to pesticide residues from plant food consumption was estimated using a contamination database. Plant-based food

SUBMITTER: Kesse-Guyot E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10630347 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature