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Foraging Wild Edibles: Dietary Diversity in Expanded Food Systems

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: Human food foraging in community forests offers extensive and expandable sources of food and high-quality nutrition that support chronic disease prevention and management and are underrepresented in US diets. Despite severe gaps in non-commercial "wild food" data, research in Syracuse, NY, identified substantial amounts of five key antioxidant phytochemicals in locally available, forageable foods with the potential to augment local dietary diversity and quality. Findings endorse the need for micro- and macro-nutrient research on an expanded range of forageable foods, community nutrition education on those foods, an expanded study on antioxidant phytochemical function, and the inclusion of forageables in the food system definition.

Source: Nutrients

DOI: 10.3390/nu15214630

Authors: Anne C. Bellows, Sudha Raj, Ellen Pitstick, Matthew R. Potteiger, Stewart A. W. Diemont

Institutions: Syracuse University, State University of New York, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Language: English

Topic: Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities

Subfield: Biochemistry

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Zero hunger, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,892