In Pakistan, the awareness workshop on rice was organized at Mingora in Swat, and in Sri Lanka, seminars on the nutritive values of rice were conducted.

To divulge nutritive foods re utilization methods, (foliage, peels, etc) that are usually thrown out and could be used in nourishment, stimulating conscious consumption and generating less waste.

Some polls conducted on living standards, have estimated the level of overall spending by households in Bosnia and Herzegovina on food, measured by its caloric and nutritive value (about 2,100 calories daily per person).

However, in the case of food, or objects with formerly living cells, large ice crystals will break the cell walls (a problem discovered, and solved, by Clarence Birdseye), resulting in the destruction of more cells, which can result in increasingly poor texture and nutritive content.