{"id":271508,"date":"2025-06-03T23:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/brainfood-balanced-diets-diverse-diets-diverse-flavonoids-micronutrients-and-ghge-african-traditional-diets-tef-diversity-intercropping-sleeping-crops-cluster-bean-taste\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T23:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T23:20:54","slug":"brainfood-balanced-diets-diverse-diets-diverse-flavonoids-micronutrients-and-ghge-african-traditional-diets-tef-diversity-intercropping-sleeping-crops-cluster-bean-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=271508","title":{"rendered":"Brainfood: Balanced diets, Diverse diets, Diverse flavonoids, Micronutrients and GHGE, African traditional diets, Tef diversity, Intercropping, Sleeping crops, Cluster bean, Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/af\/article\/15\/1\/10\/8106660\">A framework for adequate nourishment: balancing nutrient density and food processing levels within the context of culturally and regionally appropriate diets<\/a>. Some processing, but not too much. Some animal-source food, but not too much.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nutritionreviews\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/nutrit\/nuaf040\/8121815\">Diversity of Plant-Based Food Consumption: A Systematic Scoping Review on Measurement Tools and Associated Health Outcomes<\/a>. And make the non-animal-source food diverse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43016-025-01176-1\">High diversity of dietary flavonoid intake is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality and major chronic diseases<\/a>. Make the flavonoids diverse too, while you&#8217;re at it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0002916525001339\">Greenhouse gas emissions in relation to micronutrient intake and implications of energy intake: a comparative analysis of different modeling approaches<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear whether diets that deliver more (and more diverse?) micronutrient are worse for greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/nutrition\/articles\/10.3389\/fnut.2025.1519248\/full\">Africa\u2019s contribution to global sustainable and healthy diets: a scoping review<\/a>. African traditional diets are pretty healthy. I&#8217;m betting their greenhouse gas emissions are low and all.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-025-08206-5\">Population genomics uncovers loci for trait improvement in the indigenous African cereal tef (<em>Eragrostis tef<\/em>)<\/a>. Which is not to say that traditional African crops could not be improved, healthwise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s42535-025-01333-8\">Hidden potential of cluster bean: an unexploited legume crop for food and nutritional security<\/a>. Or other underused traditional crops, for that matter.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666154325002522\">Impacts of biodiversity-positive intercropping systems on food quality, safety and the consumer acceptance: A case study of intercropped wheat<\/a>. What, the food needs to be intercropped too? Another tick for African diets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rstb.2024.0192\">The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis<\/a>. Traditional eastern North American crops, production systems and diets probably tick a bunch of boxes too. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1084075\">Awake<\/a>, Cinderellas!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ppp3.70016\">But does it taste good? A plea to consider the importance of flavor in managing plant genetic resources<\/a>. None of the above matters, I suspect, if the stuff doesn&#8217;t taste good. I&#8217;m looking at you, teff and cluster bean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A framework for adequate nourishment: balancing nutrient density and food processing levels within the context of culturally and regionally appropriate diets. Some processing, but not too much. Some animal-source food, but not too much. Diversity of Plant-Based Food Consumption: A Systematic Scoping Review on Measurement Tools and Associated Health Outcomes. 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