Healthy eating: a literature review for a comprehensive definition in the framework of Short Food Supply Chain
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48160/22504001er29.525Keywords:
consumption – food – food sovereignty – marketing – healthAbstract
There is a broad consensus on the crisis of the global food model based on processed and ultra-processed foods, raising the problem of the unsustainability of both production and consumption practices. In search of interstices of possibilities to face this problem, other alternative models of food production, processing, distribution and consumption are being developed, where the proximity of the producer and the consumer is crucial: Short Food Supply Chain. These are based on the inclusion of small family producers, revalue healthy food and promote its consumption as one of the possible ways to achieve the Sustainable Development goals, but what precisely do we mean when we talk about food that guarantees healthiness? The objective of this work is to propose an integral notion of healthy food in the Short Food Supply Chain. The methodology is based on a literature review from the 2000s to the present and qualitative analysis of the same, thus providing a conceptualization of healthy eating characterized through socio-cultural, economic, political and environmental dimensions, beyond the nutritional and bio-medical ones.
