A better quality diet results in higher levels of food waste

A better quality diet results in higher levels of food waste – US researchers have shown in their study. According to the study Americans throw 422 grams of food out each day.

In their study published in the PLOS ONE scientific journal, experts have estimated that experts estimated on the basis of U.S. databases that between 2007 and 2014, US consumers lost 150,000 tons of food every day. It was reported that for the production of such food, 12 million square kilometers of production area and 16,000 billion liters of irrigation water were needed. (MTI)