Together with companies, non-profits, research institutes and policymakers we explored the subject of sustainable diets, resulting in many reports and scientific publications.
2024
Transitioning to Healthy Diets Within Planetary Boundaries: Optimized Dietary Scenarios Based on Current Eating Patterns in the Netherlands
Alessandra Grasso, Corné van Dooren, Judith Groen, Carolina Carrillo Diaz, Lisanne de Weert, Lana Liem (2024). Transitioning to Healthy Diets Within Planetary Boundaries: Optimized Dietary Scenarios Based on Current Eating Patterns in the Netherlands. Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 8, Supplement 2, 102292, July 2024. https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(24)00226-9/fulltext
2023
The Potential of Food Fortification as an Enabler for More Environmentally Sustainable, Nutrionally Adequate Diets
Grasso, A. C., Besselink, J. J. F., Tyszler, M., & Bruins, M. J. (2023). The Potential of Food Fortification as an Enabler of More Environmentally Sustainable, Nutritionally Adequate Diets. Nutrients, 15(11), 2473. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15112473
WWF UK: Eating for net zero Technical Report
Eating for net zero: how diet shift can enable a nature positive net-zero transition in the UK.
WWF NL: Eating healthy within the boundaries of one planet
Gezond eten binnen de grenzen van één aarde (WWF report in Dutch) Corné van Dooren (WWF), Judith Groen, Lana Liem, Carolina Carrillo Diaz, Alessandra Grasso, 2023 Read report
Methodology report: Dutch diet optimisation in line with planetary boundaries Judith Groen, Lana Liem, Carolina Carrillo Diaz, Alessandra Grasso, Lisanne de Weert (2023, updated 2025) Read report
2022
Added and free sugars in the context of nutritious and sustainable diets
Lisanne de Weert, Marty Heller, Alessandra Grasso, 2022
Environmental impact and nutritional value of food products using the seaweed Saccharina latissima
Petronella Margaretha Slegers, Roel Johannes Karel Helmes, Marlies Draisma, Roline Broekema, Mila Vlottes, Sander Willem Kors van den Burg (2021). Environmental impact and nutritional value of food products using the seaweed Saccharina latissima, Journal of Cleaner Production 319 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128689
Protein for a Healthy Future: How to Increase Protein Intake in an Environmentally Sustainable Way in Older Adults in the Netherlands
Alessandra C Grasso, Margreet R Olthof, Corné van Dooren, Roline Broekema, Marjolein Visser, Ingeborg A Brouwer The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 151, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 109–119, https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/nxaa322
Towards a sustainable, healthy and affordable Belgian diet (WWF BE): Optimising the Belgian diet for nutritional and environmental targets
Caroline te Pas, Lisanne de Weert, Roline Broekema, Brouwer, 2021
Future-proof and sustainable healthy diets based on current eating patterns in the Netherlands
Roline Broekema, Marcelo Tyszler, Pieter van 't Veer, Frans J Kok, Agnès Martin, Anne Lluch, Hans T J Blonk (2020). Future-proof and sustainable healthy diets based on current eating patterns in the Netherlands, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/nqaa217
2019 and earlier
Comparing the Performance of Bread and Breakfast Cereals, Dairy, and Meat in Nutritionally Balanced and Sustainable Diets
Kramer, G. F. H., Martinez, E. V, Espinoza-orias, N. D., Cooper, K. A., Tyszler, M., & Blonk, H. (2018). Comparing the Performance of Bread and Breakfast Cereals, Dairy, and Meat in Nutritionally Balanced and Sustainable Diets, Frontiers in Nutrition, 5 (June), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2018.00051
Eating for 2 degrees - new and updated Livewell Plates
Decreasing the overall environmental impact of the Dutch diet: how to find healthy and sustainable diets with limited changes
Kramer, G., Tyszler, M., Veer, P., & Blonk, H. (2017). Decreasing the overall environmental impact of the Dutch diet: How to find healthy and sustainable diets with limited changes. Public Health Nutrition, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S1368980017000349
Putting sustainable diets into practice
Gerard Kramer, Hans Blonk, Food Science & Technology Journal 2016
Combining Low Price, Low Climate Impact and High Nutritional Value in One Shopping Basket through Diet Optimization by Linear Programming
Corné van Dooren, Marcelo Tyszler, Gerard F.H. Kramer and Harry Aiking Sustainability 2015, 7(9), 12837-12855, https://doi.org/10.3390/su70912837
Menu for Tomorrow: sustainably produced and healthy food in the Netherlands
Research for the Dutch environmental organisation Natuur & Milieu. Optimeal was used to compile a sustainable & healthy diet. October 2015 Read publication
How may a shift towards a more sustainable food consumption pattern affect nutritient intakes of Dutch children?
Elisabeth H.M. Temme, Helena M.E. Bakker, S. Marije Seves, Janneke Verkaik-Kloosterman, Arnold L. Dekkers, Joop MA van Raaij and Marga C. Ocké Public Health Nutrition, Volume 18, Issue 13, September 2015, pp 2468-2478
Reducing our environmental footprint and improving our health: greenhouse gas emission and land use of usual diet and mortality in EPIC-NL: a prospective cohort study
Biesbroek S, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Peeters PH, Verschuren WM, van der Schouw YT, Kramer GFH, Tyszler M, Temme EH. Environ Health. 2014 Apr 7;13(1):27
Studying the environmental impact of different diet scenarios for the Netherlands with Optimeal®
Poster presented by Gerard Kramer during the WPHNA conference, Building Healthy Global Food Systems: A new imperative for public health Keble College Oxford, September 8-9, 2014
Greenhouse gas emission of diets in the Netherlands and associations with food, energy and macronutrient intakes
Elisabeth HM Temme, Ido B Toxopeus, Gerard FH Kramer, Marinka CC Brosens, José MM Drijvers, Marcelo Tyszler and Marga C Ocké, Public Health Nutr. 2014 Dec 29:1-13