The Periodic Table of Food

Food lies at the core of society’s most pressing challenges: climate change, biodiversity loss, and malnutrition.

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI) is providing democratized tools, data, and training to evaluate the quality of the world’s food supply for a global ecosystem of scientists, practitioners, consumers, and policymakers.

The PTFI is leveraging food composition data as a key resource in the development of solutions for planetary health through three pathways: evaluating the effects of climate change on foods, developing evidence for scaling regenerative agriculture and agroecology, and informing the development of diets for the mitigation of diet-related chronic disease.