What questions does PTFI research try to answer?
What questions does PTFI research try to answer?
Some of our big research questions are: What is in food? That’s really an entire scientific enterprise–wide question that we have at PTFI. How does the composition of food vary based on environmental factors? So variation based on the agricultural practices that a farmer might have, the climate or the weather at specific times, the biodiversity of the system, and soil quality. And finally, what are implications of this variation on our food quality for both people and the planet? That’s really thinking about managing food. We might know which compounds are in food, but what are their actual roles in how agricultural systems are functioning? What is the impact to us, as consumers of these foods, for our health?
