Howard G. Smith MD, AM on Instagram: "The Optimal Plant-based Foods
While Impossible and Beyond Burgers are all the rage, a study from University College London and the University of Oxford, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests better alternatives. Unprocessed legumes like beans, peas, and soybeans make the best meat and milk alternatives besting processed options like the veggie burgers, plant milks, and lab-grown meat. Beans, peas, and soybeans are minimally processed foods and are optimal choices for nutrition, health, environmental impact, and cost.
The study data reveals that substituting beans and peas for meat and dairy cuts diet-related disease mortality by 10%, reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than half, and lowers food costs by a third.
While veggie burgers and plant milks had health benefits, they produced more emissions and were more expensive. Lab grown meat, generated from tissue cultures of animal cells, was the worst with few health benefits, creation of high emissions, and very expensive.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319010121
#vegetarian #plantbased #impossible #beyond #labgrown"
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While Impossible and Beyond Burgers are all the rage, a study from University College London and the University of Oxford, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests better alternatives. Unprocessed legumes like beans, peas, and soybeans make the best meat and milk alternatives besting processed options like the veggie burgers, plant milks, and lab-grown meat. Beans, peas, and soybeans are minimally processed foods and are optimal choices for nutrition, health, environmental impact, and cost.
The study data reveals that substituting beans and peas for meat and dairy cuts diet-related disease mortality by 10%, reduces greenhouse gas emissions by more than half, and lowers food costs by a third.
While veggie burgers and plant milks had health benefits, they produced more emissions and were more expensive. Lab grown meat, generated from tissue cultures of animal cells, was the worst with few health benefits, creation of high emissions, and very expensive.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319010121
#vegetarian #plantbased #impossible #beyond #labgrown".
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