The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)

Overview

Food lies at the core of society’s most pressing challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, and malnutrition.

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is providing democratized tools, data, and training to evaluate the quality of the world’s food supply for a global ecosystem of scientists, practitioners, consumers, and policymakers.

The PTFI is leveraging food composition data as a key resource in the development of solutions for planetary health through three pathways: evaluating the effects of climate change on foods, developing evidence for scaling regenerative agriculture and agroecology, and informing the development of diets for the mitigation of diet-related chronic disease.

Why it Matters

Analyzing food on the biomolecular level can help us mitigate dietary implications of climate change, quantify the impact of regenerative agricultural practices on nutrition, and develop ways to mitigate diet-related chronic diseases.

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deaths globally are caused by diet-related diseases
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children globally were stunted in 2022 due to malnutrition
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decrease in global wildlife populations occurred between 1970 and 2018 [Living Planet Index]

Impact Stories

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) Lays the Ground for a Healthcare Revolution
The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) will revolutionize health and nutrition by bridging the knowledge gap in food biomolecules.
Access to Food Data Must Be Equitable and Open
The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is an effort to create comprehensive and standardized food composition data, and methods to collect it, that are shared openly and equitably as a global resource.
Women-Led Nonprofit Harvests and Shares Nutritious Food To Heal
Deep Medicine Circle brings a holistic approach to harvesting and sharing nourishing food using regenerative farming practices that honor farmers as stewards of the land.