Influence Mechanism of Genetic Improvement Characteristics of Low-cadmium Accumulation Rice Varieties on Residents’ Dietary Safety and Mental Health
Yunfeng Chen, Dongmei Ouyang, Xiangcheng Zhu, Qiang LinAbstract
Objective
Potential heavy metal contamination of rice brings long-term dietary anxiety and psychological pressure to local residents, causing unstable mental states and impairing daily mental health. This study explores the influence mechanism of genetically improved low-cadmium rice varieties on residents’ dietary safety emotion, aiming to alleviate food-related psychological pressure and promote stable mental health status of Yichun residents.
Subjects and Methods
Based on the planting characteristics of Yichun area, this study adopts field investigation, variety characteristic analysis and resident questionnaire surveys. Local residents with long-term rice dietary habits are selected as subjects to explore the correlation between improved rice genetic traits, dietary psychological pressure, mental state and mental health level.
Results
Low-cadmium accumulation rice with optimized genetic improvement characteristics effectively eliminates residents’ dietary safety concerns. The reliable food quality significantly reduces long-term psychological pressure, relieves anxious mental states caused by food safety worries, and remarkably improves residents’ overall mental health and psychological comfort.
Conclusions
Genetic improvement of low-cadmium rice varieties plays a positive role in optimizing residents’ dietary emotion. It can effectively ease food safety-related psychological pressure, stabilize individual mental states, protect public mental health, and provide practical reference for crop improvement and regional residents’ psychological well-being governance.
Acknowledgement
This paper is supported by the Special Commissioner Project of Science and Technology Department of Jiangxi Province: Demonstration, Extension and Industrialization of New High Quality and Aromatic Xiangheyou Series Rice Varieties (No: 20252BFF930004).
Corresponding Author
Yunfeng Chen, School of Life Sciences and Environmental Resources, Yichun University, Yichun 336000, China.