Going vegan? Opt for beans and peas over veggie burgers and plant milks, study finds

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1. Yeah I’m gonna go for beans over plant milk from now on. Just pour a load of beans in my morning coffee. I call it the cappubeano

2. Eating better does involve moving away from processed foods to home cooked food from scratch.  There is space for both: Veggie burgers don’t replace good quality meat. They replace other cheap burgers.  

    It’s always good to cook from scratch and veggie options that mushrooms, beans, lentils, etc. are great to use when cutting down meat, but it’s different food and need to approach things a little differently at times.

3. It’s hard work, but it broadened my horizons regarding food. Very happy to eat bean salads, lentil soups et al.

   Much more fun than tipping a box into the pan and heating it up until golden brown 🙂

4. Isn’t it just fucking obvious that those are healthier options? But people often don’t choose foods based on which are healthy or not.

5. Just because someone is going vegan doesn’t mean they’re doing it for health reasons.

   The actual headline should be :

   Going vegan? Opt for plant based foods over animal products 

   OR 

   Going healthy? Opt for whole foods over processed foods.

   Combining both into a single headline misunderstands veganism quite impressively 

6. So beans and peas are better for you than ultra processed food? No way.

7. These articles are always funny. Who eats a burger of any kind because they think it’s healthy?

   Oh no, Vegan cake has made me put on weight.

8. Beans and peas…. Please name two worse tasting foods after brussel sprouts

9. We’ve known this since primary school. “beans beans good for heart, the more you eat the more you fart”

10. I love veggies and they are a big part of our diet. We rarely eat meat and are slowly phasing out dairy ( eggs are still here and used a lot…).

    But it’s not cheap. We don’t do any meat alternatives, but cooking and preparing lots of veggies is expensive. I cook more, lots more. Yes, a bag of carrots is cheap( but don’t be fooled…some are awful with no taste!). But i cannot feed my family on a bag of carrots everyday. Part of a good balanced diet is variety.

    You know what is not expensive? 500G of mince and some pasta, thrown together in under ten minutes.

    We can afford it, Both the time and the money, but many cannot.

11. Only in the UK do you get *news* articles that treat general cooking as a new, surprising thing waiting to be discovered.

12. You’re telling me that eating Bean is healthier than eating Yellow Pea Protein*, Avocado Oil, Natural Flavors, Brown Rice Protein, Red Lentil Protein, 2% or less of Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Pea Starch, Potassium Lactate (to preserve freshness), Faba Bean Protein, Apple Extract, Pomegranate Concentrate, Potassium Salt, Spice, Vinegar, Vegetable Juice Color (with Beet)???

    Thanks Independent, what would I do without you.

    Though having said that, the ingredients for this Beyond Burger are actually a bit more tame than I assumed they’d be.

13. Who’d have thought that eating super overprocessed patties wouldn’t be the best for you. Shock and horror /s

14. It’s as if the less processed your food is the better it is for your health. Shocking.

15. As a vegan, I will say:

    1) Veganism is about the animals first. A plant-based diet is different.

    2) Vegans know this already and offer such advice to new vegans, as well as the vegan-curious. In fact, everyone should know ultra-processed foods are unhealthy.

    3) Homemade bean burgers are cheap, easy and the shit.

    4) I am not made of money. You think I can afford the vegan tax to the point I can eat vegan alternatives every day? Fuck off! Whole foods plant-based diets are cheap as chips (as well as healthy and environmentally friendly), so there is a good reason to avoid mock meats, cheeses and chocolate.

16. It’s funny how they framed the headline. Most of the article is about how much better for your health and the planet various plant-based foods are compared to meat, and yet they’ve decided to use the comparison between a veggie burger and a bean as the main “takeaway”. Rather sus….

17. What I find hilarious is that it seems like all the dieticians, nutrition scientists, and other experts are coming around to what our grandparents always knew was the ideal diet: meat + 2 veg

    No “food**stuffs**” (i.e. processed foods), whole fresh actual food – nothing added, nothing taken away.

18. I feel these miss both for vegetarians and vegans the options in curries. Most flavourful dishes that’s meat free or can be made animal product free

19. Breaking news: whole foods are better than processed foods. Although beans/peas will be weird in your coffee or tea

20. But I quit meat for morals, not because I didn’t like the taste. I’m not going to give up Plant Kitchens burgers that easy

21. I’m a huge fan of vegan sausages, plant based burgers and fake bacon. I absolutely love the stuff!

    I do however treat them exactly like I treat junk food, they are that but just without meat.

    I have the same approach to non-alcoholic beer, I treat it like it’s a normal beer, only having a couple a week.

22. I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned it, but you can make your own vegan / veggie burgers without all the processed shite

23. Any diet is the same; whole and healthy foods will be better than processed stuff. This isn’t just a vegan thing.

24. Well yeah, who would’ve thought that fruit and vegetables as they are, are healthier than ultra processed imitation meat.

25. Now there’s an artificial choice 😅

    I’ll keep eating all of that, thanks.

26. Or eat whatever you want that’s vegan and make it as easy as possible if you want to try. I’ve been vegan for 10 years now and all my tests from my GP came back great. Don’t listen to any self-righteous idiots who tells you what to eat. I make sure I get my protein and vitamins, everything that says “may contain” is basically vegan. Guys, enjoy the coming January and don’t stress.

27. One of the annoying and misleading things is a good proportion of these meat alternative products have very little protein. Effectively more carbs on top of your carbs.

    Again, scientists are creating tasty, processed non nutritious food products – yum yum.

28. If you care about your health just don’t go Vegan. It’s geniside for humans. It’s always interesting watching long term Vegans health deteriorate , as they just deny for years being Vegan is the cause. Then when some big Vegan influencers on YouTube etc finally cannot take it anymore after their teeth have started falling out, nails go brittle, hair goes dry, skin looks bad , lose a lot of lean mass and have brain fog and other mental issues they get abuse on social media. It’s more like a cult.

    Remember it can take years for issues to manifest, some Vegans feel better at first because they remove a lot of ultra processed foods and start eating whole food. Unfortunately fruits and vegetables are poor sources of most nutrients for humans, and usually less bio-available. You need vitamin A, but humans require the active form retinol, found only in animal products, NOT the inactive form carotene found in plants, which most people struggle to convert more than 10%.

    I get the ethical side (I was Vegetarian for over 20 years), but put you in an enclosure with some animals and they will eat you! Nature is cruel, our physiology is designed too run on animal protein and fat, it has zero requirement for plant matter.

    Some vegans have killed babies with their mis-guided ideology. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40274493](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40274493)

    [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vegan-mom-gets-life-starvation-death-18-month-old-son-rcna45498](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vegan-mom-gets-life-starvation-death-18-month-old-son-rcna45498)

29. Plan on living in a cave and eating grass and bugs? Lol no not me but you can.

30. Chickpeas with seasoning in the air fryer are my go to replacement in pastas etc instead of the fake meat approach.

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