Nutrigenomics and Green Technologies

Abstract

Green technologies can operate in diversified areas, and at the same time, these technologies contribute to produce more healthy and nutritious food. Biotechnology, the greenest tool of green technology, has the potential to increase the agricultural production, as well as to genetically modify food or its nutritional components to support health and to reduce the risk of diet-related diseases. Recent advances in molecular biology coupled with the wealth of information from ‘omics technologies' have fostered the emergence of a multidisciplinary field of science ‘Nuturigenomics' that tends to unfold the role of nutrition on gene expression. Amalgamation of both green technologies and nutrigenomics will help to solve problems arising due to negative effects of food, nutrition, and environment. The chapter provides an overview of green technology and its impact on nutrition and health through the study of nutrigenomics.