Sentences with phrase «of the food chain consume»

Even predators at the top of the food chain consume their placentas.

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As the food chain progresses, big fish eats little fish et cetera, the bigger fish end up consuming all of those chemicals and fish like tuna and salmon end up ridden with them.

The Freshtag system links together the entire supply chain, from point of production through to restaurant or shop, which is meant to ensure food is consumed at optimum freshness and can «significantly reduce» unnecessary food waste, the company claims.

The medium - chain fatty acids are sent to your liver for energy instead of into your cells for storage, which is perfect for a detox when less food is being consumed.

When food and associated inedible parts at food banks or charities are removed from the food supply chain (i.e., not ultimately consumed by people), these entities should use the FLW Standard to account and record the amount of food loss and waste.

Stasz concluded, «Food waste can happen anywhere along the supply chain, from the farm to the manufacturer to the retailer or restaurant, and in our homes or at work — it's estimated that 25 - 40 percent of the food that is grown, processed and transported in the United States will never be consumed — so the opportunity and the need to reduce food waste have never been greater.&raFood waste can happen anywhere along the supply chain, from the farm to the manufacturer to the retailer or restaurant, and in our homes or at work — it's estimated that 25 - 40 percent of the food that is grown, processed and transported in the United States will never be consumed — so the opportunity and the need to reduce food waste have never been greater.&rafood that is grown, processed and transported in the United States will never be consumed — so the opportunity and the need to reduce food waste have never been greater.&rafood waste have never been greater.»

What is considered inedible varies among users (e.g., chicken feet are consumed in some food supply chains but not others), changes over time, and is influenced by a range of variables including culture, socio - economic factors, availability, price, technological advances, international trade, and geography.

Long - chain n - 3 fatty acids in breast milk of Inuit women consuming traditional foods.

As apex predators they may be amplifying negative effects lower in the food chain; if tiny prey organisms are getting sickened and fish eat them, and the dolphins consume the fish, the bioaccumulation of toxins might be serious.

Plants form the basis of the food chains and are consumed by herbivores, which in turn serve as prey for the carnivores.

Plastic particles also bind environmental toxins that can become part of the food chain when consumed accidentally.

Through a process called bioaccumulation, toxic mercury can progressively accumulate in fatty tissues at each successive stage of the food chain, from small plant - eating fish to larger fish that eat them, and finally to humans who consume the various types of seafood.

Additionally, the chemicals tend to bioaccumulate in organisms as they move up the food chain, and can eventually lead to tainted populations of fish that humans regularly consume.

Large fishes on top of the food chain, such as the prized bluefin tuna, can accumulate methyl mercury in their muscles because they consume many smaller fishes over their lives.

Often referred to as «coconut milk», fresh coconut water is naturally free from germs and has many mineral salts, sugars, and medium - chain fatty acids that are capable of nourishing a patient who is incapable of consuming or digesting ordinary food.

«I couldn't find any studies that looked at bone broth specifically, but it's worth noting that «when we consume collagen, usually in the form of food, the long chain proteins are broken down during digestion to their original amino acids,» explains Science - Based Medicine contributor Scott Gavura.

In another study, recreational cyclists who consumed foods containing 6 g MCT for two weeks had longer time to exhaustion at 80 % peak VO2 compared to those consuming equivalent amount of longer chain fats [36].

Paleolithic nutrition explains precisely what nature intended us to consume as humans who belong at the top of the food chain.

You can't consume all of the branched - chain amino acids you need with food alone.

Many steps up the food chain later, predators like tuna receive methylmercury from the fish they consume... it appears the recent mercury enrichment of the sampled Pacific Ocean waters is caused by emissions originating from fallout near the Asian coasts.

For people consuming unhealthy amounts of livestock products, moving down the food chain reduces water use.

According to the memo, environmentalists» efforts to combat global warming would realize the environmentalists» «dream of an egalitarian society based on rejection of economic growth in favor of a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equitably.»

Concerns about the climate effects of consuming food transported from distant locations has also led Tesco, the leading U.K. supermarket chain, to label products with their carbon footprint — indicating the greenhouse gas contribution of food items from the farm to supermarket shelf.

Plastic travels up the food chain, with the average seafood eater consuming 11,000 pieces of microplastic a year.

And that's unfortunate, because again, you can probably fit a billion reasonably wealthy people on the planet consuming at the top of the food chain.

The researchers emphasized that microplastics pose danger from the planktons to the bigger creatures that consume them and even up to the humans sitting on top of the food chain.