The team matched the products with each other based on a variety of factors such as the ingredients, packaging, and size, to achieve the closest match possible. So, for instance, almond milk was paired with normal milk, vegan brownies with dairy-based brownies, and plant-based meat with regular meat. Other products included were lasagne, coleslaw, pesto, mayonnaise, yoghurt and cake.
So they only looked at products traditionally made using animal products, and compared them to similar products with plant-based substitutes.
An alternative headline could have been “Imitative foods contain more imitative ingredients”.
Why do I think The Institute for Optimum Nutrition is a bullshit “org” created or funded by the meat and fossil fuel industries?
From the paper:
Disclosure statement
Joseph Whittaker and Elouise Redmayne report no competing interests. Vivienne Robinson is the co-author of the book: From Plant to Planet: Nudge your way towards healthier, more sustainable food habits and receive sales proceeds from it.
“However, even though we found that plant-based products had more food additives this does not necessarily mean an increased health risk. First, we only analysed one product range so we can’t make generalisations to all plant-based products. Second, we didn’t assess the quantity or concentration of food additives used, nor how much or how often people eat these products, so, essentially, we don’t know the level of exposure of food additives from these products. And last, all food additives used in these products have passed UK food safety regulations.”
First, we only analysed one product range so we can’t make generalisations to all plant-based products.
Headline: SWEEPING GENERALISATION ABOUT PLANT-BASED PRODUCTS.
if you want sweeping generalizations - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/natural-toxins-in-food
This does not surprise me at all. Plant based products (like milks) need added texture to resemble the animal based version. That does not necessarily mean the additives are “bad” or worse for you than the saturated fats in cow milk.
I am no vege, but it’s well known plan based milk is ultra processed.
Same for “meat”.
Then, if you check yoghurt, lasagna, whatever that contain those ultra processed ingredients, guess what… It’s kind of made of the ultra processed thing, what are you hoping for?
Anyway… Garbage “science”.
People be like “I want to eat healthy without eating healthier things”
… learn to like actually healthy things instead of processed taste-alike foods.
oh. additives.
“Plant based”… Just no actual plants, fruits, vegetables… jfc.
I mean, it’s þe term usually used by þe products þemselves. You often see “plant based butter” and “plant based milk”, or “plant based bacon”. I can’t say I’ve ever seen an apple marketted as “plant based”.
Shouldn’t be eating additives as far as possible, plant or animal.
big field mushroom fried up in a ton of butter (or marinated and grilled/baked if you can be arsed) > vege patty 🤤
cant beat the simplicity of vege sausage if you being a lazy cunt though.
