Comment on non vegan pizza time

• 5wim@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have more protein, fiber, and iron than beef.

  Red meat consumption has been shown to increase risks of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer, full stop.

  I don’t know what a “health food” would be, but I would probably classify them as foods that are healthier alternatives to foods that are proven bad for your health. Which is what “Impossible” etc. are.

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  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Health food is anything that isn’t processed to hell and back.

    Impossible is just alternative junk food. Like vapes are for cigarettes. Healthier still means crap. I’d probably just use mushrooms or tofu as a patty if I wanted an alternative to beef.

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    • 5wim@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, a lot of people are not well-informed about what “processed” food constitutes, to begin with.

      According to the Department of Agriculture, processed food are any raw agricultural commodities that have been washed, cleaned, milled, cut, chopped, heated, pasteurized, blanched, cooked, canned, frozen, dried, dehydrated, mixed or packaged.

      As such, most of our diet is processed food, and there’s nothing wrong with that. If there are particular ingredients that have been added in the processing of any consumer product that are themselves bad for your health, I would definitely encourage abstinence from that product.

      While vaping is monumentally safer for one’s health than cigarette smoking, both are still a needless introduction of potential harm to one’s health, I agree.

      But we must eat food, and the harm from that food being vaguely “processed” versus the harm from it containing ingredients certainly known to contribute to stroke, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes just isn’t a worthwhile comparison.

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      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Impossible belongs to the ultra-processed food category.

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’re not really a junk food. They’re not as healthy as eating straight-up vegetables, but they’re definitely not junk food.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re nearly as salty as potato chips and loaded with saturated fat.

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    • 5wim@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Impossible has more salt than beef, but less saturated fat.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You sure?

        cnet.com/…/is-the-impossible-burger-healthier-tha…

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every 10 percentage points increase in plant-sourced non-UPF consumption was associated with a 7% lower risk of CVD (95% CI 0.91–0.95) and a 13% lower risk of CVD mortality (0.80–0.94). Conversely, plant-sourced UPF consumption was associated with a 5% increased risk (1.03–1.07) and a 12% higher mortality (1.05–1.20). The contribution of all UPF was linked to higher CVD risk and mortality, and no evidence for an association between contribution of all plant-sourced foods and CVD incidence and mortality was observed.

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