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 a

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.