Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries

Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by marcus0x62 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:34AM (#33787339)

Peas are a complete protein, but in their natural form they suffer from poor digestability compared to animal proteins. (Split peas have a PDCAAS score of around 0.5 - 0.6. Pea protein isolates can get up to 0.9, or comparable to chicken.)

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by ianai on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @08:46AM (#33787468)

It’s not all about bioavailability. Fiber might not be digested by us but the microbes that do fill the role of an organ. Giving the body something to work on offers benefits like leveled out blood sugars. This pdcaas metric needs a high quality reference.

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by marcus0x62 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:51PM (#33790769)

Here you go.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10867064/

https://systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/...

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