Optimizing food systems to improve nutrition and reduce waste | Laura Nyström
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2018-10-30

Noncommunicable diseases cause 70 percent of deaths around the world, and they are linked to insufficient physical activity and unbalanced diet – especially, we are not eating enough fibre. Laura Nyström’s lab at ETH Zurich is working on understanding the effects of soluble fibres, and their potential to create edible films that will improve nutrition as well as making foods last longer.

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