Prediction

Food grown specifically for an individual DNA and metabolic profile

A 2019 future call revisited in Jim Carroll's 2026 Agriculture & Food Trends Scorecard.

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Publish Date	2026-09-18
Updated Date	2026-09-18
Outcome	early

The original call

Original year: 2019

2026 assessment

Scorecard verdict: Early

Personalized nutrition tools advanced, but everyday food grown specifically for an individual’s DNA had not arrived by 2026. The direction remains plausible while the calendar was too aggressive.

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