Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

businessinsider.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 114 posts

Re: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

#61

Post by endymi0n »

hallihax wrote: post #30

Speaking as somebody who does enjoy a vegan boiger - 'health' and 'nutrition' are not things I'm looking at when I want a burger. This whole debate is one big straw-man. I'm a vegan. I don't need burgers. I might want burgers, but they don't form a part of a standard diet just in the same way any kind of burger probably shouldn't form part of anybody's regular diet. If you're eating processed food - there's a conside…

„In a related study, the same authors found that electric cars on average are not any faster than petrol based cars.“

Re: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

#63

Post by solarengineer »

selectodude wrote: post #45
sametmax wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Precisely. And if you have enough veggies and vegans around you, you know that they can eat as much junk food as everyone else. Sugar is vegan, after all.

I don't know many skinny vegetarians. Eating nothing but carbs and butter is vegetarian and extremely unhealthy.

In India, we vegetarians eat main courses made of vegetables and pulses, with grain-based bread or white /brown rice. Thus, we don't eat only carbs and butter, but lots of (in fact, mainly) vegetables too.

I do not know about the availability of vegetables in mainly meat-eating countries. I do know that vegetables may not often come to mind, and indeed I'm amused at various powdered vegetable drinks :)

Re: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

#67

Post by klez »

deboflo wrote: post #62

Why is this post even listed here? Business Insider is not a credible news source. They are a corrupt media organization owned by the shady Axel Springer SE. They have strong ties to powerful short sellers.

Then please flag it and move on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

#68

Post by skripp »

elil17 wrote: post #64

This article makes a false equivalence between being low calorie and being healthy. The challenge for many vegans (and vegetarians) is getting enough energy each day, so it’s actually healthy for plant based options to be highly caloric.

I agree with the first sentence, but the second one makes no sense to me.

Loads of energy in pasta/noodels, rice, potato, plant based oils etc etc. Getting all amino acids and various nutrients in sufficient amount sure, that is a problem. Energy is not.

Re: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

#69

Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

seandougall wrote: post #40
sametmax wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Precisely. And if you have enough veggies and vegans around you, you know that they can eat as much junk food as everyone else. Sugar is vegan, after all.

Some sugar is vegan. Most isn’t, though most vegans I know conveniently ignore that: [1] [1] https://www.peta.org/living/food/is-sugar-vegan/

Um. Is PETA considered a reliable source?

Re: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat's plant-based burgers aren't healthier

#70

Post by chris_wot »

deboflo wrote: post #62

Why is this post even listed here? Business Insider is not a credible news source. They are a corrupt media organization owned by the shady Axel Springer SE. They have strong ties to powerful short sellers.

Perhaps, but I think you might be going a bit overboard. However, I would like to see the original study data, and who commissioned it.

That said, perhaps it does make sense that there is too much sodium. This sort of thing should be listed on ingredients, but I don't know what laws there are in the U.S. about this sort of thing.

Post reply on HN