Goals in Nutrition Science 2025 - 2030

Elliot Berry¹Barbara R Cardoso²Sean B. Cash³Alejandro Cifuentes⁴Maria Carmen Collado⁵Johannes le Coutre^6*J Bruce German⁷Elena Ibañez⁴Mark Andrew Lawrence⁸David Christopher Nieman⁹Igor Pravst¹⁰David Raubenheimer¹¹Michael Rychlik¹²Andrew Scholey¹³Annalisa Terranegra¹⁴Angela M Zivkovic⁷

• ¹Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel
• ²Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• ³Tufts University, Medford, United States
• ⁴Instituto de Investigacion en Ciencias de la Alimentacion, Madrid, Spain
• ⁵Instituto de Agroquimica y Tecnologia de Alimentos, Paterna, Spain
• ⁶University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia
• ⁷University of California Davis, Davis, United States
• ⁸Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
• ⁹Appalachian State University, Boone, United States
• ¹⁰Institut za nutricionistiko, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• ¹¹The University of Sydney Faculty of Science, Sydney, Australia
• ¹²Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany
• ¹³Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
• ¹⁴Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, Qatar

The contributions in this article converge on a shared premise: nutrition, food security, and sustainability are interconnected properties of complex, adaptive food systems shaped by shocks, incentives, governance, and environmental limits. Priority actions include strengthening resilience and food security, and embedding nutrition goals into trade, industrial, and regulatory policy as protectionism and supply chain volatility reshape diets, prices, and equity. Governance is the dicerence between promise and harm, requiring standards and fairness mechanisms that keep pace with innovation. Diet diversification is a major opportunity, but it must protect quality, cultural integrity, and fair benefit sharing as plant-based foods and foods of Indigenous origin scale. The agenda moves beyond single nutrient debates toward whole diet and system ecects, with ultra processed foods a continuing fault line. Emerging contaminants, especially micro and nanoplastics, should be integrated into food safety management and addressed through coordinated action across processing, materials, and packaging reform aligned with upstream environmental measures. Discovery and translation are increasingly data enabled. AI supported pattern recognition and context specific dietary guidance depend on comprehensive, high resolution food composition data as foundational infrastructure. Precision nutrition can move beyond one-size-fits-all advice when recommendations are mechanistically grounded, outcome validated, and feasible at scale within real world constraints, including access, acordability, culture, and policy. Microbiome science advances through standardized methods and validated biomarkers linked to clinically meaningful endpoints, supporting a shift from association toward causality. Evidence gaps remain for performance nutrition and for brain health priorities, including long COVID, where stronger interdisciplinary programs and better trials are needed to connect nutrition with cognition, mood, fatigue, and functional outcomes. The rapid expansion of GLP 1 receptor agonists has implications for eating behaviors, food choice, and potential micronutrient risks, underscoring the need to integrate pharmacotherapy trends into nutrition research, guidance, and monitoring. One Health provides a unifying frame linking human, animal, and ecosystem health, clarifying why nutrition goals must align with food safety, environmental stewardship, and sustainable production. Interdisciplinary systems thinking is the practical method for coordinating action across civil society, science, industry, and policy to deliver durable population benefit within planetary limits.