The Complicated Reality of Plant-Based "Meat"
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
There are a few things nutrition researchers agree on: Plants are "good" for us. Processed meats are "bad." But plant-based meat alternatives...? They raise some important questions: Are plant-based meat alternatives ultra-processed foods? Are processed meats any worse than processed meat alternatives? With the rise of Impossible Meat, the Beyond Burger, and growing concerns about the climate emergency, we tackle a complicated topic: if or when meat alternatives should replace meat. With Professor Christopher Gardener from Stanford University, we get to the meat of the issue.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of our New Year's series. Today we are covering PBMAs. |
| 0:07.0 | You know, you got me! PBMA. Let me give it a try. |
| 0:12.0 | peanut butter, mashed avocados. |
| 0:15.0 | Yes, you got it. |
| 0:16.4 | We're talking about peanut butter avocados today. |
| 0:18.9 | Now Eddie, PBMA's is actually the new acronym for plant-based meat alternatives. |
| 0:23.7 | So these are things like Beyond Meat or the Impossible |
| 0:27.0 | Burger or Soyrizo. |
| 0:29.2 | Soyrizo, you got me there. |
| 0:31.3 | Soy chorizoo, soy rezo. It's basically all the things that people use to replace meat. |
| 0:40.0 | So I have to say I find the entire idea of plant-based meat alternatives a bit of a tricky topic. |
| 0:50.0 | On the one hand there's all this new research coming out that says that red meat or super processed meat is not good for you, right? |
| 0:57.0 | And these, been out there for a while. |
| 0:58.0 | Right. And these plant-based meat alternatives are really branded as health products. |
| 1:03.0 | But then on the other hand, you like look at the back of the package, |
| 1:06.0 | and you're like, oh my gosh, this has all these ingredients, it has fillers, it has colors, |
| 1:09.0 | so like, how could this be good for you if it's an ultra-processed food? |
| 1:12.0 | Basically, we're saying that a lot of them are processed or possibly even ultra processed. |
| 1:17.5 | So on today's episode, we're talking all things plant-based meat. |
| 1:21.3 | Are they good for you? Are they not? When and how often |
| 1:24.4 | should you be eating them or should you not be having them at all? |
| 1:29.4 | I'm You know Yata and I'm Dr Eddie Phillips associate professor at Harvard Medical School and you're |
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