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Blue foods brought to the table to improve fish-policy decisions

What are the benefits of a fish-rich diet, not only for nutrition and health but also for the environment, economies and sustainability? A new framework offers a way to assess the benefits and trade-offs on national and global scales.
  1. Nanna Roos

    1. Nanna Roos is in the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, 1958 Frederiksberg, Denmark.

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Fish is one of the most nutritious types of food and is recommended as part of a healthy diet. But how nutritious it is depends on the fish chosen. The environmental sustainability of aquatic foods, also known as blue foods, varies, but it is generally better than that of terrestrial livestock. Yet, remarkably, blue foods are often absent from the agenda for developing sustainable, healthy food systems.

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Nature 616, 42-43 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00851-2

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