Applications of nutritional functional units in commodity-level life cycle assessment (LCA) of agri-food systems

GA McAuliffe, T Takahashi, MRF Lee - The international journal of life …, 2020 - Springer
Purpose The nutritional quality of final products is attracting an increased level of attention
within life cycle assessment (LCA) literature of agri-food systems. The majority of these …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing nutritional, health, and environmental sustainability dimensions of agri-food production

A Green, T Nemecek, A Chaudhary, A Mathys - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Agri-food production systems are major drivers of global sustainability challenges including
climate change, freshwater scarcity, micronutrient deficiencies, and cardiovascular disease …

Meat analogues: Types, methods of production and their effect on attributes of developed meat analogues

A Singh, N Sit - Food and bioprocess technology, 2022 - Springer
Population explosion and low purchasing power of people in developing nations are a
reason for low affordability of sources of high biological value proteins like animal meat …

A model for composing meat replacers: Reducing the environmental impact of our food consumption pattern while retaining its nutritional value

K Van Mierlo, S Rohmer, JC Gerdessen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
Current food consumption patterns have a substantial impact on our environment and are
thus considered unsustainable. In the context of global warming and a rising world …

Production of plant-based meat: functionality, limitations and future prospects

M Imran, Z Liyan - European Food Research and Technology, 2023 - Springer
Plant-based meat alternatives have been considered from past years, but recently gained
much importance in research development and food industries. Concerns related to health …

Decreasing the overall environmental impact of the Dutch diet: how to find healthy and sustainable diets with limited changes

GFH Kramer, M Tyszler, P van't Veer… - Public health nutrition, 2017 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo find diets optimised on nutrition and environmental impact close to the current
Dutch diet and to identify the most effective and acceptable options for mitigating …

Just eating healthier is not enough: studying the environmental impact of different diet scenarios for Dutch women (31–50 years old) by linear programming

M Tyszler, G Kramer, H Blonk - The International Journal of Life Cycle …, 2016 - Springer
Purpose Eating healthier or vegetarian and vegan diets are suggested options to reduce the
environmental impact of the current diet. In this paper, we demonstrate a method that is able …

Opening up the black box: A systematic literature review of life cycle assessment in alternative food processing technologies

VL Silva, N Sanjuan - Journal of Food Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The last few decades have stood out because of the improvements made in food processing
under two axes: plurality (conventional technologies co-existing with new alternatives) and …

Sustainable restaurants: A research agenda

G Jacobs, P Klosse - Research in Hospitality Management, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
There is growing emphasis on sustainability within the hospitality industry. For restaurants,
which are often small businesses, that emphasis is poorly structured and rarely based on …

Economic value as a functional unit for environmental labelling of food and other consumer products

HMG van der Werf, T Salou - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to contribute to the debate on environmental labelling by
exploring the potential of economic value as a functional unit (FU) for the environmental …