Bridging the food security gap: an information‐led approach to connect dietary nutrition, food composition and crop production

Halimi, Razlin Azman; Barkla, Bronwyn J.; Andrés-Hernández, Liliana; Mayes, Sean; King, Graham J.

doi:10.1002/jsfa.10157

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“…This parameter is defined as the amount of nutrient that is absorbed and utilized through normal metabolic pathways in the body [35]. It is strongly influenced by components that promote or hinder mineral absorption such as phytic acid (PA), which is naturally present in rice [36][37][38]. Thus, it is advised to examine the phytic acid to zinc (PA:Zn) molar ratio of the rice to estimate zinc absorption [39].…”

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The acceptance of zinc biofortified rice in Latin America: A consumer sensory study and grain quality characterization

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Zinc deficiency is a major public health problem in vulnerable populations of Latin America and the Caribbean. Biofortification of rice (Oryza sativa L.) with zinc has the potential to alleviate zinc deficiencies. However, as plant breeding processes can alter grain culinary quality and favorable sensory attributes, grain quality and consumer acceptability need to be assessed prior to releasing a variety to the public. A grain quality characterization and a sensory acceptability analysis were carried out with two varieties of zinc biofortified rice and a local control both in Bolivia and Colombia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physicochemical parameters that are significant in consumer acceptance and to determine the acceptability of zinc biofortified rice by consumers. Results of physicochemical parameters were analyzed using ANOVA. The sensory acceptability was evaluated in 243 adults utilizing a 7-point hedonic scale and a Wilcoxon’s signed rank test was used to determine the overall acceptability of the varieties. Biofortified rice variety T2-11 and MAC-18 -control 1- were equally accepted by consumers in Bolivia with no significant differences (p<0.05). The grain quality analysis reported that both presented long and slender rice grains (L>7.5 mm and L/B>3), an intermediate to high amylose content (>25%) and a similar level of chalkiness. In Colombia, the biofortified variety 035 presented a higher score in overall acceptance in comparison to biofortified variety 021 and the local variety CICA4 -control 2-. However, no significant differences were observed (p<0.05). Conversely to the other two varieties, the biofortified variety 035 presented the largest size grain (L/B = 2.97), a lower chalkiness and an amylose content above 25%. This study shows that the grain quality properties of rice have an influence on acceptability and that zinc biofortified rice varieties are accepted by consumers.

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The acceptance of zinc biofortified rice in Latin America: A consumer sensory study and grain quality characterization

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“…In addition, it has been reported being used as herbal Page of 25 medicine, as animal feed, a green fertilizer and a biopesticide (Mkandawire 2007, Daniel et al 2016). The bambara groundnut seed is composed of 4.8% ash, 7.2% moisture, 47.0% carbohydrate, 19.0% protein, 7.0% oil and 1.0% free fatty acid and compares well with other legumes, although systematic approaches to comparing data on underutilised crops are limited to-date (Okonkwo and Opara 2010, Halimi et al 2019a, 2019b. Total calorific values for bambara groundnut are reported to be higher than other pulses, such as pigeon pea, lentil and cowpea; 367 kcal, 343 kcal, 354 kcal and 345 kcal, respectively (FAO, 1982).…”

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Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins

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Shah

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A total of 170 bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) accessions were evaluated using both simple sequence repeat (SSR) and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers generated using genotyping-by-sequencing (GbS), of which 56 accessions were collected from West and East Java. Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), population structure, and cluster analysis suggest that the East Java accessions could be a result of the introduction of selected West Java accessions. In addition, the current Indonesian accessions were likely introduced from Southern Africa, which would have produced a very marked founding effect such that these accessions present only a fraction of the genetic variability that exists within this species.

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“…In addition, the documentation of the methodologies and validation procedures of public data is occasionally incomplete. Therefore, merging these datasets with other non-government data sources is frequently practiced to fill data gaps and validate the original content [2]. As this information is highly dependent on web resources, such a task is often labor-intensive.…”

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An Approach Based on Web Scraping and Denoising Encoders to Curate Food Security Datasets

Santos

Acosta

2023

Agriculture

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Ensuring food security requires the publication of data in a timely manner, but often this information is not properly documented and evaluated. Therefore, the combination of databases from multiple sources is a common practice to curate the data and corroborate the results; however, this also results in incomplete cases. These tasks are often labor-intensive since they require a case-wise review to obtain the requested and completed information. To address these problems, an approach based on Selenium web-scraping software and the multiple imputation denoising autoencoders (MIDAS) algorithm is presented for a case study in Ecuador. The objective was to produce a multidimensional database, free of data gaps, with 72 species of food crops based on the data from 3 different open data web databases. This methodology resulted in an analysis-ready dataset with 43 parameters describing plant traits, nutritional composition, and planted areas of food crops, whose imputed data obtained an R-square of 0.84 for a control numerical parameter selected for validation. This enriched dataset was later clustered with K-means to report unprecedented insights into food crops cultivated in Ecuador. The methodology is useful for users who need to collect and curate data from different sources in a semi-automatic fashion.

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Bridging the food security gap: an information‐led approach to connect dietary nutrition, food composition and crop production

Cited by 11 publications

References 64 publications

The acceptance of zinc biofortified rice in Latin America: A consumer sensory study and grain quality characterization

The acceptance of zinc biofortified rice in Latin America: A consumer sensory study and grain quality characterization

Understanding the genetic relationships between Indonesian bambara groundnut landraces and investigating their origins

An Approach Based on Web Scraping and Denoising Encoders to Curate Food Security Datasets

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