
The Hunger Affecting Billions - koolhead17
https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-hidden-hunger-affecting-billions/
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pascalxus
The fallacy is thinking that you need GMOs to address malnutrition and it just
isn't so.

There's so many whole grain foods and whole plant foods that have more than
enough nutrients. And, I don't just mean a couple. There's dozens even
hundreds of super high nutrient dense natural foods out there. heck, even the
weeds that grow in your sidewalk are literally packed with extremely high
nutrient density: for example: Purslane. Purslane contains well over 200% of
your DRI of Iron in just 200 calories. I could list hundreds more, and i've
ranked them according to each nutrient here:
[https://kale.world/c](https://kale.world/c). Just set the bar to Iron and
you'll see what i mean. And it's not just Iron, it's pretty much every
nutrient you could possibly need.

Even your standard Potatoes are really high in Iron (as long as you don't
strip them of their skin which is the first thing everybody does). It's no
wonder people end up with iron deficiency when you strip the skin off potatoes
and fruits and eat processed rice (which once again strips off all the
nutrients).

And for grains, there's so many things to choose from: Teff, Whole wheat, wild
rice, oat flour, oats, cornmeal, farro, brown rice. You could literally pick
almost any grain that hasn't been processed to death, and you'd find that it's
pretty nutrient dense. It's the processing (and unsustainable agriculture
practices) which reduces the nutrient density so much. the processing and the
adding of sugar and oil which contains no nutrients.

Nature provides us which foods that are naturally high in minerals and
vitamins without the constant need for humans to muck with it. I think we
should focus less on trying to change things we don't understand and spend
more time and effort actually just growing the foods sustainably in the first
place.

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pixxel
“Two billion people do not get enough micronutrients in their diets, which can
lead to severe health conditions.“

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mc32
Seems like it’s malnutrition rather than hunger as understood by most people
... and the proposed solution is basically GMOs... which unfortunately gets a
bad rap.

