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Field Guides to Food

Nutrition

Health and Safety
Nutrition is a concept of great concern when discussing the food system, which can be used in conversations about...
The importance of providing good nutrition often comes up in discussions about school lunch programs; for example, in Adequacy of Federal School Lunch Reimbursement Adjustments, milk, produce, meat and meat alternatives, and bread are described as "key components in providing balanced, nutritious school lunches" and in particular, "whole grains and a variety of fruits and vegetables" are "categories that are crucial to providing healthier meals."
        Note that healthy and balanced are words often used as synonyms of the adjective nutritious.
This same source is particularly concerned with the cost of nutritious food, another common theme in conversations around food, along with accessibility.

A Science Roadmap for Food and Agriculture, for example, contributes to the conversation about how to enhance nutrition, health, and wellness. It suggests that these can be improved through food "technologies and breeding programs," and that nutrition plays a role with lifestyle "in preventing, mitigating, or treating obesity and chronic diseases, including diabetes, arthritis, and certain cancers."

Hunger is a term related to nutrition, which can mean

Functional foods are sometimes used to enhance nutrition. A Science Roadmap for Food and Agriculture defines them as "Foods that contain, or are 'engineered' to contain, enhanced nutrition, such as one or more compounds that are beneficial to human health."

Related terms: health, food and; functional foods; healthy food; junk food; fast food; diet; whole grain



Within the tag family "Values, Justifications, & Motivations," in the "Health and Safety" cluster.

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Contents of this tag:

  1. Twin Cities Mobile Market (flyer)
  2. Twin Cities Mobile Market (metadata)
  3. Urban Gardens & Soil Contaminants (metadata)
  4. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America (metadata)
  5. Institute of Food Technologists (metadata)
  6. San Francisco Mayor’s Directive on Food Policy (metadata)
  7. Urban Gardens & Soil Contaminants (PDF)
  8. A Science Roadmap for Food and Agriculture (PDF)
  9. Melon & Port recipe (metadata)
  10. Whole Grains in Schools: A Supply Chain Approach (PDF)
  11. Adequacy of Federal School Lunch Reimbursement Adjustments (PDF)
  12. Minnesota Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (metadata)
  13. Defining the Agricultural Landscape of the Western Lake Superior Region (PDF)
  14. Minnesota Department of Health (metadata)
  15. Industrial Food Animal Production in America: Examining the Impact of the Pew Commission’s Priority Recommendations (PDF)
  16. Minnesota Obesity Center (metadata)
  17. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America - Full report (PDF)
  18. Channel One Regional Food Bank (metadata)
  19. Nancy Carolan (metadata)
  20. Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America - Executive summary (PDF)
  21. Defining the Agricultural Landscape of the Western Lake Superior Region (metadata)
  22. Price and Label Changes and Purchasing Behavior in a Hospital Cafeteria (Metadata)
  23. San Francisco Mayor’s Directive on Food Policy (PDF)
  24. Homegrown Minneapolis: Final report presented to the Health, Energy and Environment Committee of the Minneapolis City Council (metadata)
  25. The Northside Healthy Eating Project: Transportation Access to Affordable Fresh Produce (PDF)