Foods That Will Change The World

Author: Dean Rouseberg Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Can you imagine a sugar substitute that contains no calories and is completely natural?

1. Golden rice

Vitamin A deficiency is an extremely serious problem in some parts of Asia and Africa. The reason is that good sources of this vitamin, such as carrots and sweet potatoes, are not grown nearby. Instead, the population relies almost entirely on rice.

Thus, scientists have created a genetically modified version of this food product, which is rich in vitamin A - golden rice. It has already been introduced for testing in the Philippines, Taiwan.

And despite the controversy, Greenpeace says corporate control of agriculture through genetically modified organisms is dangerous. However, there are signs that this method works. According to the American Society for Nutrition, for example, the consumption of a cup of golden rice every day can provide 50% of the recommended intake of vitamin A.

2. Hamburger "grown" in the laboratory

In addition to the ethical issue of raising millions of animals around the world to be killed for food, which is an extremely important issue for vegetarians and other proponents of the thesis, it is also a problem for the global environment. The farms that raise these animals produce 80 million tons of methane each year, accounting for 22% of methane emissions worldwide.

In addition, meat demand is expected to increase by 60% by 2050. On the other hand, the in-vitro burger, which was discovered in August, does not follow any of these problems, as it was created in the laboratory by stem cells from a cow. He could even delight vegetarians ...

3. The musical sugar and salt

Can you imagine a sugar substitute that contains no calories and is completely natural? According to a 2012 study by the University of Oxford, this magical spice is called sound.

Oxford scientists claim that listening to certain tones while eating can change our taste perceptions: high tones - for sweeter, low - for more bitter. The idea, of course, is still in its infancy and is yet to develop.

4. Paste of brown seaweed

Although water covers more than 70% of the earth's surface, it produces only 2% of the earth's food. In this line of thought, it is not surprising that many experts argue that the solution to the world's hunger lies in the seas, not on land.

On the other hand, fish is not the most reliable option. The United Nations says fish stocks are set to decline dramatically over the next fifty years.

However, this is not the case for algae. Brown seaweed has a number of benefits: it is rich in nutrients, low in fat, and is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world.

A Dutch study found that growing a quantity of brown seaweed equal to the amount of all the food the earth produces requires only one percent of the ocean surface. In some cultures around the world, algae is already a widespread food.