Are Vegan Alternatives to Meat Products Healthy? A Study on Nutrients and Main Ingredients of Products Commercialized in Brazil

Are Vegan Alternatives to Meat Products Healthy? A Study on Nutrients and Main Ingredients of Products Commercialized in Brazil

Proteins are essential components in human nutrition, and animal products are usually the primary sources of human ingestion. However, the number of adherents to vegetarian and vegan diets has grown significantly, highlighting the need for alternatives to replace animal proteins. Meat substitutes ai...

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Main Authors: Bernardo Romão, Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho, Eduardo Yoshio Nakano, António Raposo, Heesup Han, Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Renata Puppin Zandonadi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
meat substitutes
plant-based
meat
label
nutritional composition
ingredients
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.900598/full

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https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.900598/full

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