{"id":4737,"date":"2018-11-22T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science-nutrition.com\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2018-12-11T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:31:00","slug":"relationship-between-food-waste-diet-quality-and-environmental-sustainability-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/science-nutrition.com\/en\/2018\/11\/22\/relationship-between-food-waste-diet-quality-and-environmental-sustainability-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Relationship between food waste, diet quality, and environmental sustainability in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-subsection\"><div class=\"l-subsection-h\"><div class=\"l-subsection-hh g-html i-cf\"><p>This study was performed in USA in order to better understand the relationship between diet quality and environmental impact including the food waste. The authors examined the <strong>relationship between food waste, diet quality, nutrient waste, and multiple measures of sustainability<\/strong>: use of cropland, irrigation water, pesticides, and fertilizers. The diet quality was assessed using the Healthy Eating Index-2015. A biophysical simulation model was used to estimate the amount of cropland associated with wasted food. It has been shown that <strong>US consumers wasted 422g of food per person daily<\/strong>, with <strong>30 million acres of cropland<\/strong> used to produce this food every year. This accounts for 30% of daily calories available for consumption, one-quarter of daily food (by weight) available for consumption, and 7% of annual cropland acreage. Higher quality diets were associated with greater amounts of food waste and greater amounts of wasted irrigation water and pesticides, but less cropland waste.<\/p>\n<p>These results suggest that <strong>simultaneous efforts to improve diet quality and reduce food waste are necessary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To know more about the study, you can read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0195405\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Orchidali supports french companies <a href=\"https:\/\/science-nutrition.com\/en\/#sensibilisation-salaries\">to aknowledge their staff about food sustainability.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study was performed in USA in order to better understand the relationship between diet quality and environmental impact including the food<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[676,528,455],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environnementalimentation-durable","tag-agriculture","tag-diet","tag-food-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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