SuperFoods for SuperKids: Changing the World


One Snack


at a Time By Chef David Robbins “If only there were a category of foods that can be grown sustainably


that are naturally super rich in a wide range of the phytonutrients we need and can supply us with some of our macronutrients without an excess of ‘empty calories ’... Wait! Yes, there is! It’s SUPERFOODS!”


We’re Going to Skip the Comical Anecdote


All the food humankind has cumulatively produced over the last 4,000 years would not be enough to fulfill the snowballing global demands for food production in the next 30 years of Earth’s future, postulates a sobering speech from TED.com. By the year 2050 (assuming our current cultures, technology, and consumption patterns stay true to form), nearly all experts agree on these estimates: global population will be just shy of 10 billion


people; food production will need to increase by 70% of current volumes; 2.5 billion people are cur- rently malnourished; 850 million people this year are food insecure. To meet the world’s explosive demands for feeding people and the production of biofuels, annual global crop production will need to increase by over 100% to a total of two billion tonnes (4,000,000,000,000 pounds) annually by the year 2050. Global data company Gro Intel- ligence predicts that within the next decade we will reach a global need of 214 trillio n calories.


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