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  • #16
    You make a great point, Rox. A calorie is not a calorie. And all vegetarian food is not healthy. Case in point: while the new Impossible Burger is extremely meat-like, it's likely as bad for you as the real thing, and far more processed. A straight-up veggie burger without the processing is far healthier. The Washington Post just ran a story on it yesterday in fact. -D

    But the industry has taken liberties with the definition of “plant-based.” Rather than focusing on whole foods such as vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts, which is what health professionals mean when they recommend “plant-based eating,” food manufacturers are developing *ultra-processed burgers out of pea or soy protein, methylcellulose and maltodextrin, and liquid “eggs” out of mung bean protein isolate and gellan gum. Then they crown this ultra-processed food with an undeserved health halo.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...3c0_story.html
    Dave Bexfield
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      Impossible to Digest Burger

      Originally posted by ActiveMSers View Post
      You make a great point, Rox. A calorie is not a calorie. And all vegetarian food is not healthy. Case in point: while the new Impossible Burger is extremely meat-like, it's likely as bad for you as the real thing, and far more processed. A straight-up veggie burger without the processing is far healthier. The Washington Post just ran a story on it yesterday in fact. -D

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...3c0_story.html
      It’s great to see that being published, thank you and amen about highly processed vegetarian foods. They may a way for big corps to continue profiting from junky ultra delicious food in broccoli’s clothing. Who could go to Burger King for a “plant based” whopper and not get fries? But just maybe, a few moderately paced processed veggie burgers are “less bad” than a few big macs, in the long run, as long as we keep perspective on all the trappings we’re rationalizing with them.
      Last edited by neurox; 09-10-2019, 02:48 PM.

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