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László Barabási: The Nutritional Dark Matter in Our Food

Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 0m

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296: László Barabási has spent much of his career studying complex systems, from cells to social networks. This lifelong body of work eventually led him to ask a simple question: what is food actually made of? While nutrition science has identified the components we need for energy and survival, László’s lab has documented roughly 135,000 other molecules in food that sit largely outside the traditional nutritional picture. He believes that network science could eventually help us understand these molecules and food in general (including food-related diseases) with far greater precision. https://realorganicproject.org/laszlo-barabasi-nutritional-dark-matter-in-our-food The Real Organic…