9 Organic nuts and dried fruit Nuts are highly nutritious, the consumption of which has been particularly linked with protection from heart disease.
While a shift to local, organic, non-processed, low-to-no-meat diets is welcome, so too is the move towards replacing a significant proportion of meat consumption with nutritious meat substitute products, alongside a more general trend towards reduced overall meat intake in developed countries.
Consumers are increasingly looking for foods with attractive taste, easy preparation, quick consumption and nutritious.
The finding in this work that the selected insects are nutritious and safe for consumption may alleviate the fear of entomophagy thereby reducing the overdependence on conventional animal proteins.
Despite these limitations, the current study is important to provide valuable information to public health efforts targeting consumption of nutritious beverages.
We have shown that exposure to drought affects the food and mental health association, possibly by reducing the availability, affordability and consumption of nutritious food, which are each linked to increasing mental health problems [ 58, 59].
It is possible that exposure to drought may exacerbate the food and mental health relationship via potential negative impacts on the availability, livelihoods, food price and consumption of nutritious food, thereby creating acute and chronic stress.
Unlike soybean seeds, which are valued for high oil and protein content, Pv beans provide high levels of protein and carbohydrates making it a highly nutritious food for human consumption.
The study also showed that GM cotton adoption led to consumption of more nutritious foods – such as fruits, vegetables and animal products.
Fruits and vegetables being highly nutritious are produced for local consumption as well as for export purposes.
