The Future of Food

Abstract

The global food systems face significant challenges driven by population growth, climate change, geopolitical conflicts, crises, and evolving consumer preferences. Intending to address these challenges, optimizing food production, adopting sustainable practices, and developing technological advancements are essential while ensuring the safety and public acceptance of innovations. This review explores the complex aspects of the future of food, encompassing sustainable food production, food security, climate-resilient and digitalized food supply chain, alternative protein sources, food processing, and food technology, the impact of biotechnology, cultural diversity and culinary trends, consumer health and personalized nutrition, and food production within the circular bioeconomy. The article offers a holistic perspective on the evolving food industry characterized by innovation, adaptability, and a shared commitment to global food system resilience. Achieving sustainable, nutritious, and environmentally friendly food production in the future involves comprehensive changes in various aspects of the food supply chain, including innovative farming practices, evolving food processing technologies, and Industry 4.0 applications, as well as approaches that redefine how we consume food.

Brewing Mainly from Stale Bread: A Pale Ale Case Study

“…This bread waste valorization directly impacts food system domains such as sustainable food by upcycling stale bread components, consumer health through a slight decrease in alcohol concentration present in beer, consumer conscientization trends driven by a novel highly sustainable beverage, contributing directly to the mitigation of food waste [62,63]. There are six areas where brewers should look to produce a sustainable beer: beer ingredients, containers and packaging, energy and climate, solid wastes, spent The rest of the beer character traces revealed a standard profile, solidly achieving the purpose of this study: acquiring a sustainable beer that easily can integrate into the regular beer market without any need to appeal to new consumer niches commonly associated with the craft beer revolution [61].…”

“…This bread waste valorization directly impacts food system domains such as sustainable food by upcycling stale bread components, consumer health through a slight decrease in alcohol concentration present in beer, consumer conscientization trends driven by a novel highly sustainable beverage, contributing directly to the mitigation of food waste [62,63]. There are six areas where brewers should look to produce a sustainable beer: beer ingredients, containers and packaging, energy and climate, solid wastes, spent grains, and water conservation [64].…”

Climate Change Impacts on Potato Storage

“…Climate change also poses threats to food security and sustainability. Feeding the world nutritiously and sustainably faces challenges due to the growing population, and climate change brings more threats to global food systems [74][75][76]. Potatoes, among other food sources, serve as a crucial component within diversified cropping systems.…”

Seaweed Proteins: A Step towards Sustainability?

“…The global demand for protein continues to rise with increasing populations and changing dietary preferences. Traditional sources of protein, such as meat, poultry, and dairy, face challenges related to environmental sustainability, resource depletion, and ethical concerns [ 1 ]. As a result, there is growing interest in exploring alternative sources of protein that are both nutritious and sustainable.…”