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Researchers have set out what’s needed to ensure healthy diets for all, for the United Nations Food Systems Summit.
Fruits and vegetables are vital for healthy diets, write research partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit in their policy brief, with broad scientific consensus that a diverse diet containing a range of foods and their associated nutrients, phytonutrients and fibre is needed for everyone’s health and wellbeing. Studies have put forward arguments for consuming ranges of 300–600 grams per day, in the form of 200–600 grams of vegetables and 100–300 grams of fruits, to meet different combinations of health and environmental goals. The World Health Organisation recommends adults eat at least 400 grams of fruits and vegetables per day. Various national dietary guidelines translate these recommendations into eating multiple portions of a variety of fruits and vegetables each day. ....
Neglected or overlooked local food crops could well be making a comeback into markets in Africa thanks to the work of a consortium of scientists. ‘Orphan’ crops, which include a range of neglected or overlooked plants producing fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains and roots, are often very nutritious and can suit current agricultural systems. They also have extensive, although reducing, genetic diversity. As their name suggests, orphan crops have mostly rarely been researched. However, scientists, governments and agricultural development agencies have been re-thinking the importance of orphan crops because of the risk of growing only nutritionally limited and resource-intensive crops, as most of the world does now. ....