Year Awarded 2021
FFAR award amount $5,000,000
Total award amount $10,000,000
Location Washington, D.C.
Matching Funders The Rockefeller Foundation, Seerave Foundation
Grantee Institution Oregon State University
Sustainable, diverse foods that meet individuals’ nutritional needs can prevent diet-related illnesses and malnourishment; however, scientific understanding of the nutritional benefits of individual foods is still rudimentary. At most, 150 of foods’ biochemical components are tracked in conventional databases, representing only a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of biochemicals in food. The Periodic Table of Food Initiative is a global effort to standardize food analysis and better understand foods’ impact on human health, agriculture and nutrition.