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Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas by cr1895 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:23AM (#19919115)
I don't disagree with you that it's probably a really good thing to eat whole plant foods...but when you bring up something like miso, or vinegar...what are these but a further processing of whole plant foods? And why are these OK, but something like a pea extract or a pea-based protein not healthy (and I have no idea if they are or aren't).

You could even make miso from peas...

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Re:The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas by vfc1 on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:14AM (#19937083)
Those are condiments, used in minimal amounts to give more flavor to the food. They do not make the bulk of the calories, maybe 1 to 5% of a meal.

This is unlike a pea protein isolate burger, which makes a huge part of the meal. Also, there is the level of processing, pea protein isolate is much more processed than fermented condiments like vinegar or mison.

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