What’s in an apple?
It’s a simple question that seems to grow more complex the more you think about it. But what comprises an apple — or any food, really — is at the core of the Periodic Table of Food Initiative. The project posits that knowing more about the biomolecular composition of food can help address the world’s most pressing human and planetary health challenges, from climate change to malnutrition to biodiversity loss.
PTFI looks to analyze food composition data to uncover “the black box of the linkages between food and health,” Selena Ahmed, global director of the initiative at the American Heart Association, told Devex.