A Periodic Table of Food for better health globally
University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø researchers are contributing to a global effort to quantify the makeup of the world’s food supply, enabling data-driven solutions to human and planetary health challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change and malnutrition.
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The Period Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is led by nine Centres of Excellence around the world, all collaborating on the creation of standardised tools, data and training to catalogue the biomolecular composition of the world’s food supply.
In Australia, the PTFI Centre of Excellence has been established by the University of ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø’s Environment Institute (EI), with its Director, Professor Andrew Lowe, describing the initiative as crucial to the improvement of human and planetary health.
“Despite the advances in measuring food composition to date, we still don’t have a complete picture of what is in the