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The food we eat feeds our microbes, gives us energy and nutrition, and keeps us healthy. The choices we make about our food clearly affects our health, but also has a huge effect on the world around us. We need to make more effort to choose correctly.
Sometimes it…
In May 2018, researchers from the Rowett Institute and the Crop Technology Development Organisation (CTDO) co-hosted a stakeholder consultative workshop in Harare to identify a sustainable way forward to achieve long-term food production in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is a landlocked, low-income, food deficit country in sub-Saharan Africa. This year more than…
In the face of the climate emergency, the Scottish Government is aiming to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045 and to reduce emissions by 75% by 2030 and 90% by 2040. It has been estimated that the food supply chain is responsible for 20% of global carbon emissions. Changing our diet is now…
Diets high in protein and red meat might be problematic in terms of gut health, especially when carbohydrate intake is low
Dietary protein is efficiently digested in the human small intestine. The consumption of high-protein diets leads to more protein escaping digestion and additional protein will be transported…
One of our deputy directors, Baukje de Roos, recently traveled to Hyderabad, India, to attend the 100-year centenary of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), which is the premier nutrition research Institute in India funded through the Indian Government, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Throughout its long history, NIN…
