Nutrition

Brainfood: Organic penalty, Rye gaps, Sustainable diet indicators, Wheat evolution

Commercial Crop Yields Reveal Strengths and Weaknesses for Organic Agriculture in the United States. The headline will be that organic yield is 80% of conventional, but the results are far more nuanced than that suggests.
Genetic Distinctiveness of Rye In situ Accessions from Portugal Unveils a New Hotspot of Unexplored Genetic Resources. More collecting needed.
A Consensus Proposal for Nutritional Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of a Healthy Diet: The Mediterranean Diet as a Case Study. 13 indicators of sustainability described, from “Vegetable/animal protein consumption ratios” to “Diet-related morbidity/mortality statistics.”
Reconciling the evolutionary origin of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum). One slightly changed ancestral subgenome, one much-changed ancestral subgenome, and one weird hybrid subgenome involving the previous two plus another. Basically, we were insanely lucky to get wheat.

Nice tweeting about bread and other Central Asian food over past few days.
Rothamsted’s “Scanalyzer“.
The genebank origin of the UK’s premier potato, Maris Piper.
Seaweed in South America.
Repeat after me: superfoods are a scam.
Third and final instalment in The Plate’s history of the banana.
India going on a millet kick.
The wheat seed is C4? Totally crazy.
The evolution of Capsicum in half a page. Which is both too much and not enough.

Bronx Seedless finally hits the shops.
The Irish Iron Age Diet.
Choosing the right legume. But where’s the tool?
The answer to better coffee is Ethiopia.
Pacific Global Breadfruit Summit honours Diane Ragone. In other news, there’s a breadfruit summit.