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Abstract

There is growing interest in assessing the environmental impacts of diets due to the awareness of the link with human and planetary health. Until now, a limiting factor in this field has been linking information on the environmental impacts of foods to detailed, individual-level dietary data that accurately reflects people’s food consumption habits. Here we present (i) a method to link environmental impact data to a food description and classification system (FoodEx2); (ii) a resulting dataset of environmental impact values matched to 4089 food descriptors; and (iii) an example of applying this data to assess the environmental footprints of diets from Brazil and the USA. Our methodology and dataset enhance the interoperability between environmental and nutritional data, facilitating the assessment of the environmental impact of dietary intakes from different countries. They can be used by researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and consumers to reduce the environmental impact of diets.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.
Publisher Keywords:	sustainable food consumption, dietary assessment, environmental impact, greenhouse gas emissions, food description system, food systems, sustainable diets
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Departments:	School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Population Health & Policy
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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