Babies born to mothers who were anaemic during pregnancy have smaller brain volumes than babies born to mothers who were not, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London and the University of Cape Town. 

A KAUST-led study published in Nature reveals that aquatic invertebrates — oysters, mussels, crabs, and other shellfish — are far more nutritionally valuable than previously recognized. Analyzing 30 essential nutrients across more than 50,000 species, researchers found current global invertebrate production supplies enough vitamin B12 and selenium to meet the annual needs of over 5 billion people, and enough iodine, zinc, copper, and omega-3s for over 1 billion. The findings argue for putting nutrition — not just production volume — at the center of fisheries, aquaculture, and food-system policy.

A research team led by Vicent Arbona Mengual from the Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Natural Sciences at Universitat Jaume I has secured a European project under the EIC Pathfinder Challenges programme whose main objective is to generate genetically modified citrus lines with greater resilience to adverse conditions caused by climate change and its exacerbating effects on pests and diseases. The project will focus primarily on sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata).Citrus fruits are functional foods that combine nutritional value with health-promoting properties thanks to their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective effects. In addition to introducing genetic modifications to improve resilience to climate change, the project also aims to promote the biofortification of citrus fruits in order to enhance their nutritional properties by increasing both naturally occurring compounds (flavonoids and furanocoumarins) and non-native compounds (resveratrol). The latter, a stilbene found in grapes and cocoa, has been selected because of its cardioprotective and anti-ageing properties.

Healthy eating content on social media may be promoting more than wellbeing, with new Flinders University research finding popular wellness posts often reflect attitudes and behaviours linked to orthorexia nervosa, an unhealthy obsession with eating foods considered healthy or pure.