Consumer not ready for tailor-made nutrition
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 11:56
in Mathematics & Economics
In the near future it will be possible to customise the food we eat to individual needs, based on the genetic profile of the individual. Dutch researcher Amber Ronteltap suggests that the consumer market is not yet ready for this so-called nutrigenomics. Ronteltap concludes that many obstacles must be overcome before products based on nutrigenomics become a reality.