Creating shared value through better food design What a KDD ice cream trial reveals about metabolic health and the purpose of food innovation By Wolfram Alderson | metabolicmatrix.info | 15 October 2026 Can improving an everyday food create value for both the people...

The Future Is Fiber How food science is opening new possibilities for the foods we already enjoy For decades, fiber had a modest public identity: roughage. Something to keep digestion moving. Important, certainly, but hardly the ingredient around which we imagined the...

  Innovation Before Disease: The Next Frontier in Metabolic Health At the 2026 World Medical Innovation Forum, leaders from medicine, food innovation, and investment explored a provocative proposition: What if preventing metabolic disease became a viable business...

The $16.4 Trillion Question: Can Better Food Create Better Health? The headline number in the McKinsey Health Institute’s latest report, The Future of Healthy Living, is hard to ignore: $16.4 trillion. That is MHI’s estimate of the additional annual global economic...

The 2030 Meal: Where Metabolic Health Meets Affordability The question is no longer simply whether we can grow better food. It is whether the food system can turn it into meals that ordinary households can afford. By 2030, the world is projected to have roughly 8.5...

The False Economy of Big Food Is Getting More Expensive Two years ago, in a ground-breaking report, The False Economy of Big Food, economist Tim Jackson calculated the hidden health cost of Britain's food system at £268 billion a year. He has just updated the numbers....

Metabolism is the fundamental process of life. At KDD, we embrace metabolism as the north star of nutrition, embodied in the Metabolic Matrix (https://metabolicmatrix.info) – but helping the world gain better metabolic health is a cross-sector effort that requires...

The Health of Nations: Why Prevention May Be One of the World’s Best Investments An excellent report, The health of nations: Stronger health, stronger economies, by McKinsey offers a remarkable perspective on the health of natioins. For decades, we have tended to talk...

We keep treating chronic disease as if it were primarily a problem of individual behavior: eat less, exercise more, lose weight. But what if we’ve been asking the wrong question? In an episode of the Nutritious Minds Podcast, Dr. Rachel Gow sits down with Dr. Robert...

The Externality Is the Opportunity How the Metabolic Matrix can help turn the hidden costs of food into measurable health, innovation and economic value For decades, the global food system has been optimized around what companies could most readily measure and...