Recent years have seen an increase in discussion around the impact of our dietary choices not only on personal health, but on global issues such as food security and climate change. Much focus has been placed on eating a plant-based diet and eschewing animal-sourced foods, with vegetarian and vegan options becoming far more abundant across grocery stores and in restaurants. But as we look to the future, what other sources and types of food could help foster health for both people & planet?

In this series on Food of the Future, we're looking to delve into as-of-yet underutilized food sources that hold promise in their nutritional, environmental, and societal impact. The series consists of four topics, each focusing on a different alternative food source. This particular topic is dedicated to used but underutilized crops such as but not limited to tuber crops, pseudo-cereals, millets and legumes.

We welcome Original Research, Review, and Perspective articles covering topics including but not limited to:
• Accelerating the use of underutilized crops as a future smart food for nutritional security
• Improving sustainable agricultural systems and crop diversity by integrating underutilized crops
• Pre-breeding, genetic improvement, genome editing advances, and OMICS-based approaches (metabolomics, transcriptomics, genomics etc.) in underutilized crops
• Discerning nutritional, physiological and molecular responses to environmental cues in underutilized crops
• Nutritional capacity and valuable compounds for comprehensive use of underutilized crops
• Post-harvest processing and value-addition to create holistic value chains for underutilized crops

Explore the other collections within the Food of the Future series:
Food of the Future: Algae and Aquaculture
Food of the Future: Meat and Dairy Alternatives
Food of the Future: Insects

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