Low nutritional quality in vegetarian meat substitutes

EurekAlert! ^ | December 8, 2022 | Karin Wik

[Paal Gulli]

Prehistoric Hominids who ate a primarily plant-based diet evolved into monkeys and apes.

Prehistoric Hominids who learned to hunt and subsisted on high-calorie, high protein meat evolved into men.

[butlerweave]

Tofu has estrogen and will turn you into a Girly Man ,LOL

[GaltAdonis]

"...tofu... is pretty nutritious ..."

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True - but I have one health issue that causes me to avoid tofu - Phytoestrogen(s).

It is plentiful in soy products.
The science is still not settled on whether phytoestrogens - homones
from plants that mimic human hormones have a major effect on
fertility and what-not. They do seem to lower testosterone somewhat.

But the jury is still out on the total science of it all.

But the Chinese eat lots of soy - and there's over a billion
of them - so fertility is probably not an issue with soy.

Other than all of that - the question is WHY eat tofu from a
taste perspective at all? I find it sort-of edible if I dunk it
in some San-J Schezuan sauce - but that stuff can make almost
anything edible - provided that you like spicy food.

So I don't fanatically avoid soy - I just 'casually' avoid it -
if that makes any sense.

[Organic Panic]

All of a sudden everyone is going on about gluten. “Gluten free” popped up on everything. Who even knows what gluten is when they say, “I can’t have gluten?” I have only known one person who had real celiac disease. But all these fools run around saying they can’t have gluten without a clue as to what it is.

I LOVE GLUTEN I don’t eat much because carbs make me fat, but I loves me some glutenous fresh bread or pizza dough.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

Prepper ping - VEGETARIAN MEAT SUBSTITUTES

There is no known substitute for meat protein, not even currently among GMO engineered plant proteins.
Consumption of eggs, is the nearest alternative to meat protein, but is not considered vegetarian suitable.

[MtnClimber]

Vegetarian is an ancient native American Indian word that means “bad hunter”.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Consumption of eggs, is the nearest alternative to meat protein, but is not considered vegetarian suitable.

Unfertilized eggs are indeed considered vegetarian suitable.

Fertilized ones generally are not.

Now they are not considered vegan suitable but vegans are... not well people.

Cooked eggs are just about the perfect food because we can digest them fully. Not many foods we can do that with.

[metmom]

There aren’t much of an6 sources for vitamin B12 outside of beef.

And I’ll wager that not many people who don’t eat beef even give their nutritional needs a second thought.

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

I have an acquaintance/friend who never consumes any soy or tofu,
as both mimic the female hormone, estrogen.
She has a wonky gene that gives has a defect for breast cancer,
as she, her mother, and maternal grandmother all had breast cancer at the age of 36 years old,
and are concerned about a possible re-occurrence of breast and/or lymph node cancer.

[DuncanWaring]

“Prehistoric Hominids who learned to hunt and subsisted on high-calorie, high protein meat evolved into men.”

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Actually, Prehistoric Hominids who subsisted on scavenged fat and meat from the abandoned kills of large carnivores evolved into men who then learned to hunt and get their own high-calorie, high protein meat.

That’s why modern humans have stomachs only slightly less acidic than those of buzzards and vultures.

https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/comments/8o13c8/human_stomach_ph_compared_to_other_animals_what/

[GaltAdonis]

Yep.
Always be wary of those pesky 'wonky genes'.
They can be a real killer - literally.

[Ellendra]

Only a tiny percentage of the food you eat gets absorbed anyway. It doesn’t take much for anti-nutrients to reduce that number to zero.

I’m on Team Carnivore.

[GaltAdonis]

"Team Carnivore"

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I heard - within the past few months or so, that deer -
the supposed herbivores - have recently been observed
in times of drought and food scarcity - to have been killing
and eating birds.

I wish I could remember -

Wait a sec...

I just searched for the topic and found LOTS of articles on this.
I never knew that there was a 'dark side' to Bambi!
But apparently this well known - it just wasn't to me!

LOL!

[Albion Wilde]

Low nutritional quality in vegetarian meat substitutes

Exceeded only by poor tastiness quality.

[Songcraft]

"Exceeded only by poor tastiness quality."

Now, let's not be too hasty here.   Cardboard can be seen by some (I guess) to be a plant-based meat substitute.   Now, when you're cooking your cardboard, to enhance the flavor of it, be sure to add a little salt, some pepper, maybe a bit of garlic, and, Voila!


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(Tomato sauce?)

[Albion Wilde]

Now, when you're cooking your cardboard, to enhance the flavor of it, be sure to add a little salt, some pepper, maybe a bit of garlic, and, Voila!

Hahaha!

I don't know why they are flacking all this "plant-based meat." There have always been "veggie burgers" and other "vegetarian" products. Did they think re-naming them would be the road to profits, or mass climate-fear conversions?

Vegetable dishes in an of themselves can be quite delicious. It is the attempts to imitate meat that fail miserably. Who is the market for imitation meat? People who like the taste of meat, which is a biological imperative due to the vitamins and minerals their body is craving. It's better to eat a tasty combo like corn and beans to get a complete protein than to eat one of those soy patties with a lot of spices. They don't really taste like meat, and they don't really taste very good.