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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by gnicholas on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:09PM (#27071674)
I'd be curious to know which ingredients are the most worrisome. I don't eat much Beyond or Impossible at this point, but I could see myself eating a lot in the future if they made lower-fat options (more like ground turkey than ground beef).

But I don't want to eat something that is made out of unhealthy ingredients. What should I look out for?

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by adrian_mrd on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:27PM (#27071803)
Three good reads to start:

1. Primer on ultra processed foods: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...

2. NOVA “the food classification that categorises foods according to the extent and purpose of food processing, rather than in terms of nutrients” [PDF]: http://archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WN-2016-...

3. ‘Ultra-processed foods and added sugars in the US diet: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study’: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e009892

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by lambdaba on Friday May 07, 2021 @01:31AM (#27072537)
Seed oils. See Dr. Cate Shanahan.
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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by toper-centage on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:06AM (#27072762)
Better than animal fat
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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by uh-quan on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:52AM (#27075846)
Animal fats are great. One of the staples of healthy human diets for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by lambdaba on Friday May 07, 2021 @02:18AM (#27072849)
That's just wrong. Inform yourself on the history of where the saturated fat scare comes from and the disastrous consequences on global health.
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