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Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity

Nature Food volume 5, pages 189–193 (2024)Cite this article

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The Periodic Table of Food Initiative addresses food biomolecular composition information gaps through a standardized, accessible and enabling platform based on analytical tools, data and capacity building. Data from 1,650 foods serve as starting point for demonstrating the capacity of this initiative to contribute to nutrition, health and food systems transformations.

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Fig. 1: Flowchart of the reference food list development and subsequent activities.
Fig. 2: A hierarchical breakdown of foods listed.

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Funding was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation and Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR).

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  1. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Cali, Colombia

    Andy Jarvis, Daniel Debouck, Maya Rajasekharan, Colin Khoury & Joe Tohme

  2. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali, Colombia

    Jenny Gallo-Franco

  3. Meridian Institute https://merid.org/

    Julian Portilla, Mariaelena Octavio & Lily Weissgold

  4. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Bruce German

  5. San Diego Botanic Garden, Encinitas, CA, USA

    Colin Khoury

  6. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Anna Herforth & Christopher D. Golden

  7. American Heart Association, Dallas, TX, USA

    Selena Ahmed

  8. Bioversity International, Rome, Italy

    Elizabeth Arnaud, Fabrice DeClerck, Danny Hunter, Lukas Pawera & Muhabbat Turdieva

  9. Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Corinna Dawid, Christoph Hald & Stefan Klade

  10. International Potato Center, Lima, Peru

    Stef de Haan

  11. EAT Foundation, Oslo, Norway

    Fabrice DeClerck

  12. Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Edith J. M. Feskens, Vincenzo Fogliano, Robert Hall & Tinde van Andel

  13. Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Gayle Fritz

  14. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Robbie Hart

  15. Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Audrey Henry & Andrew Lowe

  16. Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China

    Sanwen Huang, Gengjie Jia & Jianbin Yan

  17. Department on Expertise of Agricultural Crops, Ministry of Agriculture of the Kyrgyz Republic, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic

    Bermet Imanbaeva

  18. School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

    Nancy J. Turner

  19. Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), San José, Costa Rica

    Elizabeth Johnson

  20. University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India

    Geetha Kalaiah, Rajendra Prasad & Sheshshayee Sreeman

  21. Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

    Salwa Karboune

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    Gina Rae La Cerva

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    Vincent Lal

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    Avraham A. Levy

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    Thingnganing Longvah

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  30. World Vegetable Center, Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan

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  31. Biocultural Education and Research Programme, St. James, Barbados

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  32. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

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  33. College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Howard-Yana Shapiro

  34. Institute of Nutrition, Salaya campus, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Warangkana Srichamnong

  35. The Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, USA

    Roy Steiner & John de la Parra

  36. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ardingly, UK

    Tiziana Ulian

  37. China National GeneBank, Shenzhen, China

    Ren Wang

  38. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    John de la Parra

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Jarvis, A., Gallo-Franco, J., Portilla, J. et al. Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity. Nat Food 5, 189–193 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00941-y

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