Nutrition in the Bin: A Nutritional and Environmental Assessment of Food Wasted in the UK

Frontiers in Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Cooper, Karen A ^a   Quested, Tom E ^b   Lanctuit, Helene ^a   Zimmermann, Diane ^a   Espinoza Orias, Namy ^a   Roulin, Anne ^a  

^a NESTLÉ RESEARCH CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b Waste & Resources Action Programme   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental impact; food waste; life cycle assessment; nutrient deficiencies; nutrition security; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85054664355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2018.00019     Document Type: Article

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