Blue food is anything that has been captured or grown in the water. In another words, food derived from aquatic animals, plants or algae that are caught or cultivated in freshwater and marine environments are blue foods.
- Five new studies conducted by the Blue Food Assessment (BFA) have just been published in Journal Nature showing that these aquatic sources could help us to tackle climate change and malnutrition.
- The Blue Food Assessment (BFA) is a collaboration between Sweden-based Stockholm Resilience Centre, United States-based Stanford University and the non-profit EAT.
What is capture fisheries ?
- The report says Capture fisheries resulted in few nutrient emissions and use limited land and water.
- Capture fisheries refers to all kinds of harvesting of naturally occurring living resources in both marine and freshwater environments.
- Capture fisheries had the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through improved management and optimising gear types.
Comparing with other foods
- When compared with chicken, trout has 19 times more omega-3 fatty acid, oysters and mussels are 76 times richer in vitamin B-12 and have five times more iron and carp is nine times more calcium-rich, according to the researchers.
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