Increased co2 concentrations will lead to a significant reduction in nutrients such as minerals and vitamins in rice.

According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency on May 28th, an international team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and others recently found that if carbon dioxide emissions from global warming continue to cause increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the second half of this century rice will be significantly reduced in terms of minerals and vitamins and other nutrients.
Although rice accounts for less than 20 per cent of the Japanese diet (in calories) and does not worry about health impacts, for developing countries such as Southeast Asia, where more than half of them depend on rice, the nutritional deficiencies caused by reduced rice nutrients combined with the decline in harvests caused by global warming may lead to delays in child development.
carbon dioxide is a representative greenhouse gas emitted by factories, power stations, automobiles, etc. "Japan, which emits a lot of carbon dioxide, should be committed to helping developing countries improve nutrition, " said Kobayashi Kobayashi, a former Todo University professor and member of the
team.
" The team conducted experiments on farms in Japan and China using devices that could change the concentration of carbon dioxide around the rice.
they planted 18 types of rice, such as "The Glow," in Asia at concentrations expected to reach in decades, and surveyed the nutrients in brown rice.
found that protein, iron and B vitamins were reduced by an average of 10%, 8% and 13-30%, respectively, compared with the current level.
this may be the excessive absorption of carbon in rice, making it difficult to absorb vitamin ingredients and minerals.
is envisaged to address this problem by eating more meat and vegetables to diversify nutritional sources or to replenish minerals by fertilizing agricultural land.
however, it is understood that people in developing countries whose economies are not rich are difficult to implement and that it is necessary to provide them with support.
(Reporter Wang Huan) The findings were published in the American scientific journal Science Advances.
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