‘Future Foods’ Could Make Our Diets More Nutritious And Sustainable Eating protein-rich algae, insects and lab-cultured meats is more than a dietary fad: it could bring benefits for our health and the environment. Reducing the amount of animal products we eat and replacing them with more plant-based foods: this is heralded as the best way to reduce our dietary impact on the planet. But a new study goes a step further, to show that eating an array of rapidly emerging, alternative ‘future foods’–including lab-grown meat, seaweed, and insect protein–would not only do more to protect the planet, but would actually provide us with more and better nutrients than switching to an exclusively plant-based diet. In the Nature Sustainability paper, the researchers measured the nutritional and environmental profiles of nine ‘future food’ products and compared them to animal-based and plant-based diets. These nine foods were cultured/lab-grown meat, protein made from fungi, the larvae of two fly s