Nutrition-Oriented Reformulation of Extruded Cereals and Associated Environmental Footprint: A Case Study.

ABSTRACT: The global food system faces a dual challenge for the decades ahead: to (re)formulate foods capable to feed a growing population while reducing their environmental footprint. In this analysis, nutritional composition, recipe, and sourcing data were analyzed alongside five environmental indicators: climate change (CC), freshwater consumption scarcity (FWCS), abiotic resource depletion (ARD), land use impacts on biodiversity (LUIB), and impacts on ecosphere/ecosystems quality (IEEQ) to assess improvement after three reformulation cycles (2003, 2010, 2018) in three extruded breakfast cereals. A life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed using life cycle inventory (LCI) composed by both primary data from the manufacturer and secondary data from usual third-party LCI datasets. Reformulation led

SUBMITTER: Espinoza-Orias N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7555475 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature