Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 238, Issue -, Pages 125-133Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.11.083
Keywords
Nutrients; Contaminants; Food prices; Cultural acceptability; Environmental impact; Multi-criteria approach
Funding
- INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research, DID'IT metaprogramme)
- MS-Nutrition
- ANRT (Agence Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technology)
- Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation under the Avasun project
- doctoral school GAIA, Montpellier University
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The holistic approach required to assess diet sustainability is hindered by lack of comprehensive databases compiling relevant food metrics. Those metrics are generally scattered in different data sources with various levels of aggregation hampering their matching. The objective was to develop a general methodology to compile food metrics describing diet sustainability dimensions into a single database and to apply it to the French context. Each step of the methodology is detailed: indicators and food metrics identification and selection, food list definition, food matching and values assignment. For the French case, nutrient and contaminant content, bioavailability factors, distribution of dietary intakes, portion sizes, food prices, greenhouse gas emission, acidification and marine eutrophication estimates were allocated to 212 commonly consumed generic foods. This generic database compiling 279 metrics will allow the simultaneous evaluation of the four dimensions of diet sustainability, namely health, economic, social and environmental, dimensions. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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