Mathematical Optimization to Explore Tomorrow's Sustainable Diets: A Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: A sustainable diet is, by definition, nutritionally adequate, economically affordable, culturally acceptable, and environmentally respectful. Designing such a diet has to integrate different dimensions of diet sustainability that may not be compatible with each other. Among multicriteria assessment methods, diet optimization is a whole-diet approach that simultaneously combines several metrics for dimensions of diet sustainability. This narrative review based on 67 published studies shows how mathematical diet optimization can help with understanding the relations between the different dimensions of diet sustainability and how it can be properly used to identify sustainable diets. Diet optimization aims to find the optimal combination of foods for a population, a subpopulation, or an indiv

SUBMITTER: Gazan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6140431 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature