[AVX Seminar] Food for the future: trends and challenges
Manuela Pintado, Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Universidade Católica
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02 Jun, 2016
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11:00 am to 12:00 pm |
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| Where | Auditorium |
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AVX Seminar
Title: Food for the future: trends and challenges
Speaker: Manuela Pintado
Affiliation: Centro de Biotecnologia e Química Fina, Universidade Católica
Abstract: Food security and quality improved extremely in the industrialized world, however new challenges have been raised to agrofood industry. Climate changes, the impact of food production on the environment, the food consumption (availability) trends and projections, the changes in food consumption over the past 50 years that are associated with rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer are some of the main challenges that require new food options to provide nutritious and healthy diets to overcome malnutrition. In future agrofood industry and policies must reflect both agrofood and health sectors, thereby allowing the development of rational and sustainable solutions that will benefit agriculture, human health and the environment.
So, during this presentation some opportunities and trends will be discussed including superfoods such as specific vegetables/fruits or algae, genetically engineered foods, cultured beef, functional food tailored to specific groups, personalized 3-D-printed foods, insects and naturally the reuse of by-products to produce new food products.
