Plant based promises, diet and health
Discovery
BBC
4.3 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Giles Yeo learns how to make a Thai green curry with Meera Sodha. This is a recipe without meat or prawns but with tofu and lots of vegetables. If we need to eat less meat and dairy to help prevent global warming- what difference will altering our diets make to our health. For a long time now people have been urged to cut down on red meat and processed foods but if you have been eating them all your life it takes an effort to develop new habits. Plant based products that can replace for example dairy milks, cheeses, sausages, burgers and meat based dishes such as lasagne can be helpful in making this transition but are they healthier?
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| 0:35.8 | Hi. |
| 0:36.8 | And why does this smell good already? Have you started cooking? |
| 0:39.2 | I just put some jasmine rice on and I put a little bit of lemon grass in there. |
| 0:42.8 | Can you smell that? |
| 0:43.8 | I can. |
| 0:44.8 | I'm going to teach you how to make a Thai green curry. |
| 0:47.4 | And this will be a Thai green curry without meat because I'm interested in the health |
| 0:51.7 | benefits of cutting down on animal products and the role of meat and dairy alternatives. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm not going to lie, Giles. |
| 0:58.1 | This recipe has a lot of ingredients that go into making the Thai green curry paste. |
| 1:03.4 | But the amazing thing about it is that I'm just going to chop the ingredients and put |
| 1:08.0 | them into a blender and that is 99% of the preparation done. |
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