La matriz alimentaria

For many years, nutritional advice has focused on recommending a certain number of kilocalories, macronutrients (proteins, carbohydrates, fats) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). And that message has been offered many times to the media and to the population as vital for health, but the reality is that, except in very specific diseases... it is not so important to talk about a certain energy intake or about specific percentages of macronutrients or an exact amount of a mineral or vitamin because there are other factors that are more important to health and also because this information is not very useful for most of the general population. You have to talk more about food and less about kilocalories and nutrients. And it is that food is not only nutrients and other substances present in it, it is also the interaction that all these elements have with each other. And that is where the concept of the food matrix, which is increasingly in vogue and which is the subject of this book, arises.