Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change to human diet

Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by fpoling on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:36AM (#20653332)

Meat taste comes mostly from salt and souses. People who tried home-made sausages or grilled meat without any of those complained that it tasted like nothing. The problem with tofu sausages is that one just cannot add that much salt as to meat without making it feel too salty.

That acquired taste can be reset if for 2-4 weeks one avoids any product with added salt or sugar. Then tofu and many other products including plain meat without any additives will taste much better.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by LegitShady on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:17AM (#20653986)

Impossible Foods directly disagrees with you (they say it comes from heme) and they have food scientists working for them.

Tofu dogs never taste like meat, ever. If you wait 2-4 weeks you're just creating a new habit, not approximating meat in any way.

Your comment, while potentially a healthy choice, certainly isn't an accurate description of meat taste. And meat eaters everywhere can recognize this because we have all tried the other products and it doesn't taste close, even after 2-4 weeks.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by rowanG077 on Friday August 09, 2019 @07:48AM (#20653405)

This is simply not true. I often it "raw" meat without adding salt or any sauce. There are some meats which taste pretty to close to nothing but this isn't even close to the case for most meats.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by fpoling on Friday August 09, 2019 @08:10AM (#20653548)

There is a famous recipe of winning a cocking competition. Just add more salt and sugar. So for quite a few people that defines a taste. But if for some reasons one do not exposed to that, then I suppose food without salt or sugar tastes normally.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by LegitShady on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:01AM (#20654364)

you can repeat it as often as you want, its not true. You're pretending meat is water and doesn't have anything of its own to flavor it, and that's just not true.

You won't convince people by lying to them about the flavor of things you want them to buy. They'll label you a liar and move on.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by rowanG077 on Friday August 09, 2019 @10:26AM (#20654623)

Something tasting better is not the same thing as the original tasting like nothing. Meat with good seasoning tastes better then no seasoning but that has absolutely nothing to do with you claiming meat tastes like nothing.

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Re:Eat less meat: UN climate change report calls for change ... by radicalbyte on Friday August 09, 2019 @09:23AM (#20654042)

I know this saying. It also includes fat: butter for sweet and lard for savory.

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