Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and combat malnutrition in the face of climate change, environmental degradation and epidemics, says new report.
Maggots and worms will soon be on the menu for our grandchildren to avoid starvation Future foods must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
Researchers claim that reservations about eating new foods such as insects could be overcome (Image: Shared Content Unit)
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Maggots and kelp must be mass-produced to curb global malnutrition – report 13/05/2021, 4:03 pm
Researchers have suggested that foods such as mealworms, algae and protein derived from fungi will need to be mass-produced and consumed to combat global malnutrition in the future (John Giles/PA)
Foods such as mealworms, algae and protein derived from fungi will need to be mass-produced and consumed to combat global malnutrition in the future, a new report suggests.
Researchers have said that, with climate change, environmental disasters and epidemics posing a threat to current food supply chains, new systems are needed to “future-proof” meals.
In a report published in the journal Nature Food, scientists from the University of Cambridge said that farming foods such as algae, which include spirulina and sugar kelp, the larvae of insects such as the house fly, and mycoprotein, which is protein derived from fungi, could help eradicate global malnutrition.
Maggots and worms will soon be on the menu for our grandchildren to avoid starvation Future foods must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
Researchers claim that reservations about eating new foods such as insects could be overcome (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
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Maggots and worms may be what our grandchildren call dinner if they are to avoid starvation, suggests a new study.