The production and promotion of nutrient rich foodstuffs to address the double burden of malnutrition.

生产和推广营养丰富的食品，以解决营养不良的双重负担。

• 批准号: BB/T008946/1
• 负责人: Paul Fraser
• 金额: $ 118.18万
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FT008946%2F1
• 关键词: production; promotion; nutrient; rich; foodstuffs

The United Nations have declared 2016 to 2025 as the decade of action to eradicate all forms of malnutrition worldwide; ensuring access to healthier and more sustainable diets for all, regardless of location and whoever they are. This brief also encompasses the double burden of malnutrition now facing most societies and characterised by the coexistence of undernutrition along with overweight, obesity or diet-related noncommunicable disease (NCDs). The proposed project "NUTRIFOOD" will improve the nutritional quality of diets in West Africa by identifying new nutritionally enhanced varieties of tomato, amaranth, cassava and yam; incorporating these fruits and vegetables and their derived products into the food systems will diversify the existing food basket and provide improved quality. The project will draw upon global resources and expertise, utilising unique germplasm. The tools and resources developed are generic in nature and although our focus will be Nigeria and Benin in West Africa the findings can be translated across other SSA countries and Low Medium Income countries globally. Fruit and vegetables are rich in provitamin A. One of our key performance indicators will be the provision of foodstuffs with the potential to reduce Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD). VAD is widespread in low-income countries and prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where 83% of children aged 2 to 5 years exhibit VAD. As a result of this malnutrition, 500,000 cases of blindness and 1.25 million deaths occur annually. With this aim, NUTRIFOOD will focus on high provitamin A fruits and vegetables as well as the high caloric staple crops cassava and yam biofortified with provitamin A and other nutrients The processing approaches used will potentially create storable products with improved nutrient uptake. As vitamin A is essential for well-being in the first 1000 days of life and the development of children, schools and households will be target in NUTRIFOOD. In Benin and Nigeria nutritional interventions in schools will be carried out. Potentially, these studies could contribute to the alleviation of VAD and improved cognitive development in infants. Modern communication technologies and approaches will be used to communicate the advantages of healthy diets and how to generate healthy diets in a cost-effective manner. The consortium will carried out a series of workshops to which multi-actors across the supply chain will be invited. With, scientists, NGO representatives, policy makers, parents (mothers) and civil organisations involved co-design approaches to the implementation of healthy diets will be attempted and promoted.

联合国宣布2016年至2025年为消除全球一切形式营养不良的行动十年，确保所有人都能获得更健康和更可持续的饮食，无论他们在哪里，无论他们是谁。这份简报还包括大多数社会目前面临的营养不良的双重负担，其特点是营养不良沿着超重、肥胖或与饮食有关的非传染性疾病（NCD）。拟议的“NUTRIFOOD”项目将通过确定营养增强的新品种番茄、阿马兰斯、木薯和山药，改善西非饮食的营养质量;将这些水果和蔬菜及其衍生产品纳入粮食系统，将使现有的食物篮子多样化，并提高质量。该项目将利用全球资源和专业知识，利用独特的种质。开发的工具和资源是通用的，虽然我们的重点是西非的尼日利亚和贝宁，但研究结果可以在全球其他撒哈拉以南非洲国家和中低收入国家推广。水果和蔬菜富含维生素原A。我们的主要业绩指标之一将是提供有可能减少维生素A缺乏症的食品。VAD在低收入国家和撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）普遍存在，其中83%的2至5岁儿童表现出VAD。由于营养不良，每年有50万人失明，125万人死亡。基于这一目标，NUTRIFOOD将专注于高维生素A原的水果和蔬菜，以及高热量的主食作物木薯和山药，用维生素A原和其他营养素进行生物强化。由于维生素A对生命最初1000天的健康和儿童的发展至关重要，因此学校和家庭将成为NUTRIFOOD的目标。在贝宁和尼日利亚，将在学校采取营养干预措施。这些研究可能有助于缓解VAD和改善婴儿的认知发育。将利用现代通信技术和方法来宣传健康饮食的优点以及如何以具有成本效益的方式提供健康饮食。该联合体将举办一系列研讨会，邀请整个供应链的多方参与者参加。与科学家、非政府组织代表、决策者、父母（母亲）和民间组织一起，共同设计实施健康饮食的方法。

项目成果

A xanthophyll-derived apocarotenoid regulates carotenogenesis in tomato chromoplasts.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.plantsci.2022.111575
• 发表时间: 2022-12
• 期刊: Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology
• 作者: C. D’Ambrosio;Adriana Lucia Stigliani;J. Rambla;Sarah Frusciante;G. Diretto;Eugenia M. A. Enfissi;A. Granell;P. Fraser;G. Giorio

The 'Nigerian Diet' and Its Evolution: Review of the Existing Literature and Household Survey Data.

• DOI: 10.3390/foods12030443
• 发表时间: 2023-01-17
• 期刊: Foods (Basel, Switzerland)

Carotenoid composition and sequestration in cassava ( Manihot esculentum Crantz) roots

木薯 (Manihot esculentum Crantz) 根中的类胡萝卜素组成和封存

• DOI: 10.1101/2023.12.19.572370
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Drapal M