Is meatless meat good for your health?
5 years ago

Is meatless meat good for your health?

The Hindu  

In Udaipur, among the many mutton biryani and tandoor stalls at Shobhagpura Circle, a white-and-green food truck attracts crowds for its vegan ‘chicken’ hakka noodles and tikkas. It is great to be validated by meat eaters in areas popular for their non-vegetarian fare,” says Abhishek Sinha, CEO and co-founder, explaining, “Plant-based meats are healthier as they are high on protein, and free from antibiotics and growth hormones.” Meanwhile, down South, every time Chennai-based Shakthi Girish returns from a trip to the US, her bags are packed with mock meat patties and sausages from Beyond Meat and Field Roast. “We expect several launches over the next year in the country, aimed at addressing rising meat and protein demand with sustainable solutions.” He says that plant-based meat is aimed at being a simple switch for consumers, away from what is already a highly processed food — meat. “But if you’re eating burgers and hot dogs, you may want to consider making the switch to plant-based meat.” No excuses Processed plant-based and cultured products are still quite nascent in India, though we are making strides — the world’s first government research centre focussed on the development of cell-based meat is set to open in Mumbai this year, while start-ups like ClearMeat plan to start distribution of cultured protein soon. The co-founder of Humane Animal Society says that while she has tasted several mock meat products, she is not too fond of them “as I don’t enjoy its texture”.

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The best and worst meat replacements for your health, your wallet and the planet – new research
1 month, 1 week ago

The best and worst meat replacements for your health, your wallet and the planet – new research

Salon  

By now it's well established that meat and dairy are at least partly to blame for the climate crisis. Among these plant-based alternatives were traditional products such as tofu and tempeh, processed options such as veggie burgers and plant milks, products still under development such as lab-grown beef and unprocessed foods like soybeans and peas. Beans beat the lot The …

Meat has a distinct taste, texture and aroma − how do plant-based alternatives mimic the real thing?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Meat has a distinct taste, texture and aroma − how do plant-based alternatives mimic the real thing?

Salon  

When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food's smell, taste, texture and color. Typically, plant-based meat alternatives are made using nonanimal proteins, as well as chemical compounds that enhance the flavor, fats, coloring agents and binding agents. To …

Plant-based meats boost heart health, fight cholesterol or just another trend? Know pros and cons
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Plant-based meats boost heart health, fight cholesterol or just another trend? Know pros and cons

Hindustan Times  

Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the popularity of plant-based meats as fitness enthusiasts look for more sustainable and healthier food options. Plant based meat products available from leading companies that are very low in cholesterol compared to meat/milk based products have potential to improve diets for both vegetarian and non-vegetarian consumers, especially those already diagnosed or at …

Is eco-friendly eating healthy? Debunking 5 common myths
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Is eco-friendly eating healthy? Debunking 5 common myths

Hindustan Times  

Choosing food that is both healthy and good for the planet can be confusing. Here are five common food myths that need to be busted: Myth 1: "Meat's eco-footprint is exaggerated" Animal husbandry is one of the most environmentally-damaging activities in food production due to its high greenhouse gas emissions, extensive resource use, and the pollution it causes. Myth 2: …

Vegan fake meats are linked to increase in heart deaths, study suggests: Experts say plant-based diets can boost health – but NOT if they are ultra-processed
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Vegan fake meats are linked to increase in heart deaths, study suggests: Experts say plant-based diets can boost health – but NOT if they are ultra-processed

Daily Mail  

Replacing meat and dairy with plant-based swaps might not be the simple health hack you think it is. Although eating plant-based foods is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, you may want to reconsider how many vegan burgers you are tucking into as researchers say UPF foods could increase risk Now research published in Lancet Regional Health - …

The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate
8 months ago

The cultured wars: Why lab-grown meat is inspiring bipartisan hate

Salon  

Ron DeSantis wants to “protect meat.” This is something the governor of Florida — a Republican who was previously, and perhaps fittingly, dubbed “Meatball Ron” by former president Donald Trump — has made clear for months, first while railing against ESG frameworks and a California law that requires farmers to provide more room for breeding pigs, and then eventually in …

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust
55 years ago

Plant-Based Meat Boomed. Here Comes the Bust

Wired  

Over the past three years, the plant-based meat industry has experienced a major reversal in vibes. Between 2018 and 2021, total sales of plant-based foods in the US grew from $4.8 billion to $7.4 billion, with much of that growth driven by plant-based meat in particular. An annual report from the Good Food Institute, an alternative protein nonprofit, found that …

Is it better to eat plant-based foods than rely on meat?
1 year, 1 month ago

Is it better to eat plant-based foods than rely on meat?

The Hindu  

A recent article turned the spotlight on dietary habits — is it better to turn to fully plant-based foods and avoid meat? An article in the recent edition of BMC Medicine analyses the evidence that substituting animal-based with plant-based foods does lower risk of cardiovascular diseases, and type 2 diabetes besides mortality. The article ‘Substitution of animal-based with plant-based foods …

Plant-based meat is a simple solution to climate woes - if more people would eat it
1 year, 1 month ago

Plant-based meat is a simple solution to climate woes - if more people would eat it

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In Australia — where the average person ate around …

Beyond Meat cuts non-production workforce by 19% with demand for plant-based meat weak
1 year, 2 months ago

Beyond Meat cuts non-production workforce by 19% with demand for plant-based meat weak

Associated Press  

Beyond Meat is cutting 19% of its non-production workforce after a weaker-than-expected third quarter. “We anticipated a modest return to growth in the third quarter of 2023 that did not occur,” Beyond Meat President and CEO Ethan Brown said in a statement. U.S. retail dollar sales of fresh meat alternatives, like sausage and burgers, were down 21.5% this year through …

Plant-based meat sales are stagnating. Could amplifying its green benefits help change that?
1 year, 4 months ago

Plant-based meat sales are stagnating. Could amplifying its green benefits help change that?

Salon  

It's difficult to tell if the recent wave of anti-vegan sentiment has affected the plant-based meat market, but denigrating the image of vegans has certainly gone mainstream. However, a growing ideological divide over the environment means traditional ways of encouraging people to eat plant-based meat — promoting its green credentials — could be harming sales, according to research. Our study …

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet
1 year, 4 months ago

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet

Wired  

The day it went public in May 2019, Beyond Meat’s stock soared by 163 percent—the best one-day performance for a major American company in nearly two decades. On an earnings call on August 7, 2023, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown told investors that net revenues had decreased 31 percent year-on-year, prompting the company’s share price to slip more than 10 …

Meat grown from animal cells? Here’s what it is and how it’s made
1 year, 6 months ago

Meat grown from animal cells? Here’s what it is and how it’s made

Associated Press  

The U.S. government is allowing the sale of chicken made from animal cells. It’s meat grown from the cells of animals in steel tanks. Consumers can expect cultivated meat to be sold at a growing number of restaurants and small retailers within the next two to five years and on supermarket shelves within seven to 10 years, said Sebastian Bohn, …

Lab-grown meat is worse than real thing for climate. But will it always remain that way?
1 year, 7 months ago

Lab-grown meat is worse than real thing for climate. But will it always remain that way?

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Current methods of producing lab-grown meat make their environmental impact much greater than retail beef, …

Could we all be buying lab-grown meat soon?
1 year, 10 months ago

Could we all be buying lab-grown meat soon?

Salon  

In November 2022, the FDA made a surprise announcement: It had no further questions about the safety of a lab-grown chicken product from Upside Foods, one of the largest startups attempting to produce marketable lab-grown meat. When compared to conventional meat products, best-case-scenario lab meat production could avoid many of the ethical and environmental issues that come with conventional meat …

Patty smiths: Check out the latest advances in meatless meat
1 year, 11 months ago

Patty smiths: Check out the latest advances in meatless meat

Hindustan Times  

Turning plants into meat substitutes is complicated. To really mimic meat, one must account not only for specific flavours, but also the textures and sensory expectations diners associate with meat. Many plant-based foods also contain seitan, a processed-wheat gluten that is low-fat, low-carb, high-protein. Oils — typically coconut or peanut — are added next, to make the mock meat feel …

Lab-grown meat takes one step closer to hitting supermarket shelves
2 years, 1 month ago

Lab-grown meat takes one step closer to hitting supermarket shelves

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Cultivated meat took a step closer to hitting UK supermarket shelves after the US Food …

Plant-based meat 'healthier and more sustainable than animal products': Study
2 years, 5 months ago

Plant-based meat 'healthier and more sustainable than animal products': Study

Hindustan Times  

According to a new study, plant-based nutritional substitutes for animal products are healthier for both the environment and people than the animal products they are meant to replace. Plant-based meat 'healthier and more sustainable than animal products': Study A new study argues that because these foods are 'specifically formulated to replicate the taste, texture, and overall eating experience of animal …

Body less able to absorb protein from vegan ‘meat’, study suggests
2 years, 6 months ago

Body less able to absorb protein from vegan ‘meat’, study suggests

The Independent  

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Learning to cook with plant-based ‘meats’
2 years, 11 months ago

Learning to cook with plant-based ‘meats’

Associated Press  

It’s that time of year when many people resolve to eat less meat. “The veggie meats are an easy substitute,” says Angela Campbell, a pescatarian living in Portland, Maine, who relies on plant-based meats to enhance her cooking. The chicken might brown, but nothing crisps up.” Cheyenne Cohen, a food photographer in Brooklyn, New York, eats vegan at home, and …

Is plant-based meat replacing traditional meat? Know more
3 years, 1 month ago

Is plant-based meat replacing traditional meat? Know more

India TV News  

The uniquely diverse dynamics of India make it one of the prime treasures of savoury goodness. Plant-based meat products in popular Indian culture Considering the evolving palates of new-age generations, many modernistic cafes and restaurants have started using plant-based meat substitutes to roll out delicious risotto, pasta, burgers, pizzas, and even traditional Indian cuisine. Considering that consuming plant-based meat is …

Why your vegan burger is not always better than chicken
3 years, 2 months ago

Why your vegan burger is not always better than chicken

Live Mint  

Over the last few years, there has been a flurry of plant-based meat substitutes flooding the market: burger patties, sausages, minces, nuggets that claim to be a perfect replacement for the real things. However, the truth is this-- just because plant-based meat substitutes manage to emulate the taste and texture of meat doesn't make it nutritionally the same thing. When …

Is fake meat about to take over your table?
3 years, 2 months ago

Is fake meat about to take over your table?

LA Times  

Several years ago, I read a story in Pacific Standard magazine under the headline “The Biography of a Plant-Based Burger.” The lead character was a burger, of course, but close on its heels was Patrick O. Brown, a “graying, bespectacled, 62-year-old Stanford University professor” who, after a sabbatical dedicated to “eliminating industrial meat production,” decided he would come up with …

Plant-based Burgers are Taking Over Processed Meat Buns, But are They Healthy?
3 years, 6 months ago

Plant-based Burgers are Taking Over Processed Meat Buns, But are They Healthy?

News 18  

University of Hertfordshire Hatfield Plant-based diets have surged in popularity during the past few years. They often contain many similar ingredients including protein isolates, emulsifiers, binders and other additives and are made using industrial processing methods, so can be considered an ultra-processed food product. The newness of plant-based burgers and other meat alternatives means that there hasn’t yet been time …

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?
3 years, 6 months ago

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?

Live Mint  

In The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Douglas Adams poses an ethical conundrum that the book’s protagonist, Arthur Dent, finds rather tricky. More recently, economic growth in China and India has been accompanied by significant increases in meat consumption; what used to be largely small-scale pastoral operations transformed into greenhouse gas emitting dystopian factory farms of large-scale cruelty, …

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?
3 years, 6 months ago

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?

Live Mint  

In The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Douglas Adams poses an ethical conundrum that the book’s protagonist, Arthur Dent, finds rather tricky. More recently, economic growth in China and India has been accompanied by significant increases in meat consumption; what used to be largely small-scale pastoral operations transformed into greenhouse gas emitting dystopian factory farms of large-scale cruelty, …

The good, the bad and the ugly of plant-based diets
3 years, 6 months ago

The good, the bad and the ugly of plant-based diets

Live Mint  

In the U.S., sales of meat at grocery stores are down by more than 12% from a year ago. The United Nations’ global meat price gauge has risen for eight straight months, the longest streak since 2011, and is near a multi-year high. As the country suffered through one of Southeast Asia’s biggest economic hits from the pandemic, Cruz started …

Scientists to make mock meat tastier, healthier
3 years, 7 months ago

Scientists to make mock meat tastier, healthier

Live Mint  

As meat-eating continues to increase around the world, food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are focusing on ways to create healthier, better-tasting and more sustainable plant-based protein products that mimic meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs. It's no simple task, says food scientist David Julian McClements, University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor and lead author of a paper …

How to Get More Plant-Based Meat Onto Plates in 2021
3 years, 11 months ago

How to Get More Plant-Based Meat Onto Plates in 2021

Wired  

Faux burgers and chicken nuggets are having a moment. In 2018, Impossible Foods, the Silicon Valley–based alternative meat company known for its plant-based burger that “bleeds” like the real thing, made its nationwide fast food debut at all White Castle locations in the US. A year later, KFC partnered with Los Angeles–based alt-protein producer Beyond Meat to create a plant-based …

Will lab-grown meat be better for the animals we eat?
4 years ago

Will lab-grown meat be better for the animals we eat?

The Independent  

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Singapore Food Agency has approved “chicken bites” containing meat …

Tricking the Taste Buds: Flavour Makers Rise to Meaty Challenge Amid Concerns Over Health, Animal Welfare
4 years, 1 month ago

Tricking the Taste Buds: Flavour Makers Rise to Meaty Challenge Amid Concerns Over Health, Animal Welfare

News 18  

At flavour maker Givaudan’s innovation centre near Zurich, veteran chef Sam Brunschweiler serves up a lamb shawarma dish that looks and tastes appropriately meaty but is made from pea protein. Givaudan analyses how fat, proteins, sugars and water in meat produce different flavours when heated because “most of the flavour comes from the cooking”, Garofalo said. Stacy Pyett, who manages …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. About 160 supermarkets around China started selling microwavable meals featuring plant-based meats by Hong Kong-based food-technology company OmniFoods on Aug 27. Over at hotel Le Sun Chine in Shanghai, executive chef Gu Chao has created two dishes with plant-based meat-Shanghai-style meatballs with pumpkin filling and pancakes with "meat" toppings-for …

Ditching red meat in favour of vegan substitutes cuts heart disease risk, say scientists
4 years, 4 months ago

Ditching red meat in favour of vegan substitutes cuts heart disease risk, say scientists

The Independent  

Swapping red meat for certain plant-based meat alternatives can cut the risk of suffering heart disease, scientists have found. American researchers who studied people eating both meat and meat substitutes discovered those who ate red meat at least twice a day had higher levels of a molecule that makes people susceptible to cardiovascular ill health. One diet involved at least …

Are there health benefits to going vegan?
4 years, 11 months ago

Are there health benefits to going vegan?

BBC  

Are there health benefits to going vegan? “Protein is in everything.” It’s also it’s unlikely a vegan diet will cause an iron deficiency, says Springman, as long as your diet includes fruit and vegetables of every colour. Getty Images The vegan diet is thought to be one of the healthiest because it includes plenty of legumes aswell as fruit and …

I'm a Vegetarian—Will I Eat Lab-Grown Meat?
55 years ago

I'm a Vegetarian—Will I Eat Lab-Grown Meat?

Wired  

Eschewing meat requires explanation, especially if you were raised an omnivore. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured meat, in vitro meat, cultivated meat, cell-based meat, or, if you’re a marketer, “clean” meat—is the product of literal factory farming, or cellular agriculture. “But people still eat chicken nuggets after watching those really gross videos because they are cheap and tasty and convenient.” …

Meatless Meat Is Everywhere. But How Good Is It For Us And The Planet?
5 years, 1 month ago

Meatless Meat Is Everywhere. But How Good Is It For Us And The Planet?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Meatless burgers just got the ultimate seal of approval from the fast-food industry. Chipotle, for example, has said it won’t offer the meatless alternatives from Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat on its menu as the current options available are too processed and use too many ingredients. A spokesperson for Beyond Meat told HuffPost all foods involve some …

Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products
5 years, 2 months ago

Americans, especially millennials, are embracing plant-based meat products

Salon  

By 2050, many scientists estimate that the world food supply will have to increase sharply from today’s level to meet anticipated demand from a global population of 9 to 10 billion people. With debate over the impacts of meat production intensifying, we have been tracking U.S. attitudes related to plant-based alternatives through Michigan State University’s Food Literacy and Engagement Poll. …

Plant-based meats gaining market momentum in US
5 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats gaining market momentum in US

China Daily  

A plant­based sausage is served in a bun. David Portalatin, food industry adviser for NPD, said, "It's clear by the growth in plant-based protein shipments to food service and restaurant operators that this category has mainstreamed beyond those who choose a meatless diet." Noel White, president and CEO of Tyson Foods, said in a statement, "Today's consumers are seeking more …

The beef with beef: Fake meat market growing rapidly
5 years, 3 months ago

The beef with beef: Fake meat market growing rapidly

Al Jazeera  

The alternative meat market is poised to rise to $240 billion over the next two decades as new technologies gain ground and consumers change their diets, according to Jefferies. The great “protein shake-up” could see faux meat reach 9% share of the estimated $2.7 trillion global meat market by 2040, analyst Simon Powell forecasts, from less than 1% now. Plant-based …

Could fake meat burgers make cows obsolete?
5 years, 4 months ago

Could fake meat burgers make cows obsolete?

CNN  

CNN — The average American eats nearly 60 pounds of beef a year – roughly equal to a couple of hundred burgers. A new generation of burgers made with, “plant meat” is vying to topple the beef burger from its throne, transforming the beef industry and the way we eat in the process. “It’s to completely replace animals as a …

Big Chicken wants in on the plant-based meat options and that's a good thing
5 years, 6 months ago

Big Chicken wants in on the plant-based meat options and that's a good thing

Salon  

Not a day seems to go by without the launch of a new plant-based alternative from a well-loved restaurant chain or brand. It’s not the case that plant-based chicken alternatives haven’t been available at all in recent years, but it’s an area that’s fallen behind the unprecedented innovation we’ve seen from red meat alternatives. While plant-based chicken alternatives available in …

Meat replacements set to overtake animal meat by 2040
5 years, 6 months ago

Meat replacements set to overtake animal meat by 2040

The Independent  

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The result “is meat which is identical to conventionally produced meat,” the report states, …

Meat-based alternatives gain new popularity
5 years, 7 months ago

Meat-based alternatives gain new popularity

Hindustan Times  

From Burger King’s introduction of a vegetarian version of its uber-popular Whopper burger to the much-celebrated Wall Street entry of vegan startup Beyond Meat, companies selling meat alternatives have the wind in their sails. The companies are banking on changing dietary habits of part of the population limiting meat consumption for environmental, health or animal rights reasons. But several companies …

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