Designing Culturally Acceptable, Nutritious, and Low Environmental Impact Finnish Diets with Mycoprotein: A Novel Optimization Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Meat alternatives can support a gradual reduction in meat consumption, contributing to more sustainable diets. Optimization is a useful tool to investigate this potential, but neglecting diet acceptability may limit the relevance of the approach.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to develop a new diet optimization model that includes meat alternatives and accounts for diet acceptability, then to apply it to characterize a culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate, and low-climate impact Finnish diet that incorporates mycoprotein.

Methods

An original quadratic optimization model minimizing the weighted distance from the current diet was designed, with mycoprotein introduced as a new food within the meat group. The model first simulated a nutritionally

SUBMITTER: Fu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12615728 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature