Plant-based ‘meat’ vs grass-fed meat
A paper was published in Nature Scientific Reports in July 2021. It used an analytical profiling technique (metabolomics) to compare plant-based ‘meat’ and grass-fed meat for thousands of nutrients and outputs of the metabolic process (metabolites).
The paper was written within the context of the increased interest in, and incidence of, plant-based ‘meat’ alternatives.
The researchers examined numerous samples of plant-based meat vs grass-fed meat, which started from a similar serving size (113g), fat content (14g), saturated fat content (5-8g) and calories (220-250), but the differences were far greater than these starting similarities.
The plant and meat burgers were strikingly different.
There were many interesting points in the paper:
– How they make plants more ‘meat-like.’
– The nutrients commonly added to plant-based products.
– Evidence for fortified nutrients not being the same as natural nutrients.
– Plant-based products contain phytosterols and saccharides and other substances that may be undesirable.
– Plant-based burgers are processed and processed food is processed food.
– There are approximately 26,000 products and by-products of metabolism (metabolites). Fortifying a plant product with a single nutrient found in meat doesn’t start to replicate the synergistic health benefit of the real thing.
The authors concluded that “a plant burger is not really a beef burger.”
No kidding!
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karen elliot
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There’s vaccines, and there’s “vaccines”. There’s meat, and there’s “meat”. There’s fresh food, and there’s “fresh food” from supermarkets. And there’s lots of money to be made
when healthy people are said to be “asymptomatic”.
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