How gene editing can help farmers target premium food markets

How gene editing can help farmers target premium food markets
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Gene editing has the potential to help change the food we eat, making it healthier and more nutritious as well as boosting its flavour and increasing yields.
It also provides an alternative means of tackling allergens and contaminants that can be found in both raw and cooked foodstuffs, preventing illnesses and disorders linked to their consumption.
This means that developments such as potatoes and cereals that reduce the amount of acrylamide in cooked products and flour that behaves like fibre in the gut are possible.
With many of these innovations already being in an advanced stage of development, their positive effect on the national obesity crisis, rising levels of diabetes and other metabolic disorders can only be guessed at, as there are no end products on the market yet.

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