• swim@slrpnk.net
    83·
    3 months ago

    And?

    Your wikipedia links don’t make an assertion. The one on UPF does remind you, though, that

    Some authors have criticised the concept of “ultra-processed foods” as poorly defined

    The crux of this learning moment for you shouldn’t be about definitions, but the relative “healthiness” of vegan food products.

    It’s clear you began with a preference to paint with a broad brush these meat substitute products as “junk food,” and you have the opportunity to recognize they aren’t as obviously unhealthy as you first thought.

      • swim@slrpnk.net
        63·
        3 months ago

        Oh honey, your stealth edit shows that you don’t understand. I’ll explain it to you: the study you keep linking doesn’t differentiate between those foods in that “range of ultra-processed foods (UPF),” so that means data coming from “sugar-sweetened beverages, snacks, confectionery” is getting all mixed in with the data of the “‘plant-sourced’ sausages, nuggets, and burgers,” which unfortunately renders the conclusions of the study rather meaningless when we’re talking about the CVD outcomes of just one of the data sets.

      • swim@slrpnk.net
        42·
        3 months ago

        Low-effort repost of your specious use of a study with nebulous conclusions for this conversation; I’ll quote the user above:

        that category contains “soft drinks, sweet or savoury packaged snacks, confectionery; packaged breads and buns; reconstituted meat products and pre-prepared frozen or shelf-stable dishes.” This gives you no information on Impossible burgers’ impact on cardiovascular disease, it only gives you a trend among people who eat all of the above. I would suspect the reality is Impossible meat contributes to CVD slightly more than straight-up vegetables and significantly less than red meat.