nutritious

"We successfully made a fungus not only more nutritious but also more environmentally friendly by tweaking its genes."

Writing in The Lancet, the researchers say governments need "to step up" and introduce warnings and higher taxes on UPF products, to help fund access to more nutritious foods.

But the consultant dietitian said another problem was an ageing population, meaning more people were struggling to feed themselves properly or access nutritious food due to chronic illness or mobility issues, for instance.

Such an invasion might not be so bad if the plants were benign, nutritious, sweet-smelling or all of the above.

In doing this, it gained access to dense mats of nutritious organic material while also beginning the development of the bilateral body arrangement that defines most animals today.