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Is fake meat healthy?

Well, if you're a vegetarian or a vegan, we live in a time of the most abundant choices of plant-based proteins.

Specifically, I'm talking about mock meat like vegetarian sausages,

vegetarian chicken nuggets, vegetarian bacon. The meat alternatives are endless. It's exciting

to have so many options right now, but are these new inventions actually healthy? Well, first of all, I enjoy

looking at the ingredients of these vegan or vegetarian options. And one of the things that you'll

frequently discover is the present of gluten in a great number of these alternative foods.

If not in the meat fiber itself, certainly in the breading.

And as you've learned in gut check, 100% of my patients with an autoimmune disease and leaky gut or intestinal permeability

have antibodies to the various forms of gluten that occur in wheat, rye, and barley. So that's a no starter right there.

But what about these wildly popular, beyond meat, and impossible burgers?

Surely those are okay.

Well, I see them on the menu everywhere.

But we need to take a closer look.

Let's start with Beyond Meat.

So what's in it?

Well, there are a few ingredients of the dozen or so, like vinegar and lemon juice that are great.

But those are the very last two ingredients on the list so let's

take a look at the top four main ingredients besides water number one pea protein

what is it well it's protein that has been extracted from peas. They actually break peas down and just

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