Reducing Your ‘Foodprint’ While Eating Healthier

摘要

A foodprint is the resource and environmental impactassociated with an individual’s eating habits and will vary withcomposition of diet, shopping venue, type of food purchasedand consumed (e.g., organic or conventional), caloric needsand intake, quantity of food wasted, food availability, andfood access. Unfortunately, 35 percent of edible food thatreaches the retail sector goes uneaten in the United Statesbecause of human decisions, contributing significantly to anindividual’s foodprint.1 Thankfully, there are ways to reducefood waste and improve our individual foodprints.