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    Greater Value in Nutrient-rich Food

    Greater Value in Nutrient-rich Food

    By Dr. Vanessa Woods

    (Letter to the Editor-Sunday Independent, 1 December 2019)

    Sir, Farm­ers pro­duce high-­qual­ity, nu­tri­tious food which con­sumers re­quire for health. We are of­ten guilty of treat­ing food as a plen­ti­ful com­mod­ity nowa­days. Nu­tri­ent-dense food con­tains more nu­tri­ents (e.g., pro­tein, fi­bre, vi­ta­mins, min­er­als) than calo­ries. If con­sumers don’t eat the es­sen­tial nu­tri­ents, health is com­pro­mised. As with all suc­cess­ful part­ner­ships, ef­fec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion is key. An in­clu­sive part­ner­ship will fa­cil­i­tate con­sumers in bet­ter un­der­stand­ing the nu­tri­ent con­tent of food. Sus­tain­abil­ity is sim­ply meet­ing the needs of to­day, with­out com­pro­mis­ing those of to­mor­row. Ir­ish farm­ers are renowned for ef­fi­ciently con­vert­ing inedible fi­bre in our lush green grass, nat­u­rally washed by Ir­ish rain, into nu­tri­ent-dense food.

    As with all suc­cess­ful part­ner­ships, ef­fec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion is key. An in­clu­sive part­ner­ship will fa­cil­i­tate con­sumers in bet­ter un­der­stand­ing the nu­tri­ent con­tent of food. Sus­tain­abil­ity is sim­ply meet­ing the needs of to­day, with­out com­pro­mis­ing those of to­mor­row. Ir­ish farm­ers are renowned for ef­fi­ciently con­vert­ing inedible fi­bre in our lush green grass, nat­u­rally washed by Ir­ish rain, into nu­tri­ent-dense food. More re­cently, the de­bate around food choices and their en­vi­ron­men­tal im­pact has con­fused con­sumers. Sci­ence can elim­i­nate con­fu­sion by pre­sent­ing clear facts. For ex­am­ple, re­cent peer-re­viewed sci­ence re­ported that the nu­tri­ent den­sity of cow’s milk was seven and 35 times greater than soy drink and oat drink re­spec­tively. Al­though green­house gas emis­sions from cow’s milk were 3.3 and 4.7 times higher than soy and oat drinks, con­sumers need to un­der­stand these bev­er­ages are not the same. What’s key is the point at which the higher car­bon foot­print of nu­tri­ent ­dense foods like dairy and meat is off­set by their higher nu­tri­tional value.

    For con­sumers who en­joy red wine, its nu­tri­ent den­sity was low (sim­i­lar to oat drink) and its green­house gas emis­sions were the high­est of all eight bev­er­ages ex­am­ined, be­ing more than twice that of cow’s milk.

    Con­tin­u­ous ef­fec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween farm­ers and con­sumers will de­liver a nat­u­ral part­ner­ship.