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Blatantly labeling a food item with anything other than flavor and nutritional value probably causes it to be seen by people as not being competitive on flavor

• alphanullmeric 3y ago
  And with vegan food that generally is the case, hence the amount of processing, added sugars, seed oils, etc.
  • at_compile_time 3y ago
    Perhaps the lesson is to be careful of vegan foods that require labels in the first place. Most of the healthiest food are so obviously vegan that it would be absurd to label them, as is the case with legumes, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. It isn't until you move up the processing ladder that these labels become necessary. Once you've entered the realm of food that's been engineered to imitate animal products, that vegan label is doing a lot of work to make people think of the food as healthy.
• caf 3y ago
  I would hypothesise that a nutritional label like "high fibre" or "low salt" might well have the same dissuading effect. A follow-up study is called for! Other labels that might have a similar effect are religious ones like kosher or halal.