Nature Food

And it's not just turmeric.

In 2019, a team led by network scientists, Albert Laszlo Barabasi, published a paper in the journal Nature Food with a title I love, The Unmapped Chemical Complexity of Our Diet.

Here's what they found.

The nutrition databases we rely on, the ones that build the nutrition labels on your food, track about 150 key components, calories, fat, protein, vitamins, minerals.

That was from Trinity College, Dublin.

Woohoo! Go on, Trinity! Published in Nature Food in 2020.

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If they have the chemical, the chem- the composition of that, how many grams of that or mik- milligrams will be very, very similar from one plant to the other one.

And we, we published a paper in Nature Food even kind of explaining why is that and so on.

There's a biochemical reason why they have to be very similar.

But then we realized that in some foods we have outliers [laughs].