Posted on 07/06/2021 8:43:58 PM PDT by karpov
Plant-based meat substitutes taste and chew remarkably similar to real beef, and the 13 items listed on their nutrition labels—vitamins, fats and protein—make them seem essentially equivalent.
But a Duke University research team's deeper examination of the nutritional content of plant-based meat alternatives, using a sophisticated tool of the science known as "metabolomics," shows they're as different as plants and animals.
Meat-substitute manufacturers have gone to great lengths to make the plant-based product as meaty as possible, including adding leghemoglobin, an iron-carrying molecule from soy, and red beet, berries and carrot extracts to simulate bloodiness. The texture of near-meat is thickened by adding indigestible fibers like methyl cellulose. And to bring the plant-based meat alternatives up to the protein levels of meat, they use isolated plant proteins from soy, peas, and other plant sources. Some meat-substitutes also add vitamin B12 and zinc to further replicate meat's nutrition.
However, many other components of nutrition do not appear on the labels, and that's where the products differ widely from meat, according to the study, which appears this week in Scientific Reports.
The metabolites that the scientists measured are building blocks of the body's biochemistry, crucial to the conversion of energy, signaling between cells, building structures and tearing them down, and a host of other functions. There are expected to be more than 100,000 of these molecules in biology and about half of the metabolites circulating in human blood are estimated to be derived from our diets.
"To consumers reading nutritional labels, they may appear nutritionally interchangeable," said Stephan van Vliet, a postdoctoral researcher at the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, who led the research. "But if you peek behind the curtain using metabolomics and look at expanded nutritional profiles, we found that there are large differences between meat and a plant-based meat alternative."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Mmm. Methyl cellulose.
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Wallpaper paste, also, veterinary product, rectal lube.
It's from the meat packing plant!
It’s not different from baby formula.
It does not and cannot replace the real thing, which is far better for you.
I guess *Better living through chemistry* is not dead after all.
“Plant-based meat” is not meat, and a “transgender woman” is not a woman.
Millions of years of human history and adaptation got us to the point that we can efficiently eat REAL meat (and other naturally occurring foods). Start throwing other crap into our bodies and all bets are off.
“The beef contained 22 metabolites that the plant substitute did not. The plant-based substitute contained 31 metabolites that meat did not. [...] Several metabolites known to be important to human health were found either exclusively or in greater quantities in beef [...] the plant-based meat alternative contained several beneficial metabolites not found in beef such as phytosterols and phenols.”
Yeah right! I have a prime hamburger lined up to eat today. Prolly eat half with ketchup and half with mustard. With a few shrimp on the side to make this into a surf n turf.
Bill Gates was promoting eating lab created meats. Let me know when he starts eating them. btw Bill Gates liked to get out of the house and away from bossy Melinda. He would be sighted in the Seattle region, in the crowds at the common al fresco hamburger places. You would be in line, you turn around and Bill Gates is behind you waiting to eat the same.
This in the last 3-5 years.
Bill likes the same hamburgers the commoners like. The synthetic laboratory created meats he promotes are a head fake
Touche’
Science, which the left claims to love so much, tells us that humans have always eaten animals and plants, and that eating meat helped the development of the human brain and language.
It is normal and natural to eat animals. Animals eat animals and humans. It’s nature.
Leftism is the denial of human nature.
i need to send this to some of my “friends”
[the science known as “metabolomics,”]
Shouldn’t that be “meatabolics”?
Sorry, it’s early. Not that later will be any better.
OK, I get the picture, and for the record, I eat meat and like it. But the vegan world has a right to something that does not taste like cardboard. And as for profit, sure, I like that too. But I know that Impossible Foods is not able to price below the meat products they want to replace. However the Jews and Muslims can enjoy their product without restrictions, so that is a large market they are reaching towards.
The food is genetically altered (by yeast cells) so if that is not something you can tolerate, then its not for you.
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