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Anthony Fardet
Fardet Anthony
anthony.fardet@inrae.fr
04 73 62 45 62
INRAE
Researcher

Research Activities

My activities are divided into two main areas: research and research leadership, including public and private expertise, scientific coordination, scientific outreach and communication to diverse audiences, editorial activity, and forward-looking thinking.

My research activities are based on a holistic empirical-inductive approach and include :

  1. Data mining and statistical analyses ;
  2. Studying the eating behavior of 6- to 15-year-olds (European PLAN'EAT project): participatory action research ;
  3. Food processing and overall health ;
  4. Developing integrative and holistic scores to characterize the degree of food processing and the relationship between diet and overall health (4V rule) ;
  5. Systematic reviews and narrative reviews on the associations between diet, degree of food processing, the "matrix" effect, and/or chronic disease risks.

The results of these research activities are then published in different formats for different audiences, and thus serve as support for my research animation and scientific popularization activities. My "common thread" research project consists of "the systematic and generic characterization of the links between the degree of processing of foods and their health potential, with a focus on ultra-processed foods, within the framework of sustainable food systems and according to a holistic approach."

Most notable publications

  • A. Fardet, S. Gold, A. Delgado, N. Kopsahelis, V. Kachrimanidou, L. Kaur, F. Galli, E. Rock (16 January, 2024). How can food processing achieve food and nutrition security? Sustainable Development, Ahead of print/early view: https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2899
  • L. Lebredonchel, A. Fardet (6th December, 2022). How French children food representations and tastes vary according to their social backgrounds: a study of disparities in food habitus. Health Sociology Review, 32(2), 213-227
  • A. Fardet, K. Aubrun, H. Sundaramoorthy, E. Rock (10th November, 2022). Nutrition transition and chronic diseases in India (1990–2019): an ecological study based on animal and processed food caloric intake and adequacy according to nutrient needs. Sustainability, 14(22), 14861
  • A. Fardet, E. Rock (24th January, 2021). Chronic diseases are first associated with the degradation and artificialization of food matrices rather than with food composition: calorie quality matters more than calorie quantity. European Journal of Nutrition, 61, 2239-2253
  • A. Fardet, L. Lebredonchel, E. Rock (8th September, 2021). Empirico-inductive and/or hypothetico-deductive methods in food science and nutrition research: which one to favour for a better global health? Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 63(15), 2480-2493

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