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It’s not exactly a secret, but ensuring people are aware is good. There’s an old South Park episode about cartman Being outraged at the vegetarian school meals
by mint2 4y ago
It’s not exactly a secret, but ensuring people are aware is good.
There’s an old South Park episode about cartman
Being outraged at the vegetarian school meals until he realizes they are highly processed goo and then he’s okay with it.
I actually like beyond meat and find impossible meat good in pasta with red sauce. Yeah they’re vegetarian and tick two out of the three main reasons people go vegetarian but I doubt it’s any healthier, the third reason.
- x0x0 4y agoI dunno; the article seems to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Are most meat substitutes maximally healthy? Probably not. Are they likely healthier than the red meat they're replacing? Yes.
- nradov 4y agoThere is no reliable scientific evidence that meat substitutes produce better long-term health outcomes than regular (non processed) red meat.
- tstrimple 4y agoIt's difficult to measure long term health impacts of a product that has only been generally available for a couple years.
- darth_avocado 4y agoOunce for ounce, beyond meat burger has higher fat, higher sodium, lower iron and calcium than just regular ground 80/20 beef. Healthier is at best debatable.
- x0x0 4y agolower saturated fat, lower trans fats, lower cholesterol, etc. Is it a perfect win? No. Is it likely healthier per our best guesses at nutrition science per the articles I've read? Yes. Again, it's not perfect. https://chanapdavis.medium.com/the-skinny-and-fat-on-wall-street-darling-beyond-meat-902b7ea85492 https://chanapdavis.medium.com/the-skinny-and-fat-on-wall-st...
- anoonmoose 4y agoI wasn't sure about this so I looked it up... https://www.nutritionix.com/i/usda/beef-ground-80-lean-meat-20-fat-raw-4-oz/513fceb775b8dbbc210032b8 https://www.nutritionix.com/i/usda/beef-ground-80-lean-meat-... https://www.nutritionix.com/i/beyond-meat/beyond-beef-plant-based-ground/5d1ef894d42ac192589b87fb https://www.nutritionix.com/i/beyond-meat/beyond-beef-plant-... > higher fat untrue > higher sodium true > lower iron and calcium untrue Beyond has less calories, and less calories from fat. it also has less cholesterol and more protein. at least, according to this source. I suppose your final statement still stands, though. But to me the Beyond looks healthier, especially if you compensate for that increase in sodium elsewhere in your cooking.
- ac29 4y agoAre you comparing premade beyond meat patties to raw ground beef? Beyond meat burgers are preseasoned which is why the sodium is higher. You could eat unseasoned ground beef, but it wouldnt be very good.
- jhanschoo 4y agoThe Buddhist-cuisine mock meats that I get in my Asian supermarket are essentially gluten in marinade. I don't see how these are anywhere healthier than the meats they replace.
- UglyToad 4y agoJust hopping on your comment to make a tangentially related point. I think the thing the vast majority of comments on hn regarding fake meats miss is the 3 factors in going vegetarian (1. environment, 2. animal welfare, 3. health) are completely independent. Like I care a lot about 2, some about 1 (in that it's not my motivating factor just a nice side benefit) and not at all about 3. I'd be eating like crap if I ate meat too, sausages, KFC, McDonald's. The cool thing about meat substitutes is you no longer need to be an incredibly intense lentil-weaving, yoghurt-knitting hippie to go vegetarian, you can do it if any one of the 2 non-health factors is motivating enough.
- MivLives 4y agoI've tried a few different ones. Some sort of plant based sausage (don't know what brand they use) was fine with onions on a pizza. Those chicken nuggets aren't quite the same consistency but I don't mine them, they taste mostly the same. Is it gonna replace steak? No and I don't think it should. It can totally replace ground beef at Taco Bell though.
- eric__cartman 4y agoI can't wait for a future were we could (hopefully) artificially grow meat in a lab so the meat available that didn't come from a dead animal is closer to the real thing. In an affordable and sustainable fashion at least. Maybe I'm being too optimistic and hopeful on this one.