Research Between Plant-Based Meat And Meat Shows Meat To Be Superior

Duke University researchers have recently uncovered findings that a deeper understanding of the nutritional based diet of plant-based meat alternatives using metabolomics, help findthat they consist ofdifferent parts of plants and animals. The team notes that beef contained 22 metabolites that the plant based component simply did not. The plant-based diet contained 31 metabolites that the meat based components did not. The team further concludes that the greatest differences found between the substitutions were found in amino acids, dipeptides, vitamins, phenols, and types of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Plant based meat substitutes are found to be similar in chewing and taste based factors.

The team incorporated a sophisticated tool known as metabolomics, which provided the team a deeper understanding of the latter. The meat based manufacturers go to great lengths that make their products as meaty as possible by adding leghemoglobin, which are the iron-carrying molecule obtained from soy, red beet, berries, and carrot extracts that simulate bloodiness. The texture for their products isoften integrated by adding indigestible fibers like methyl cellulose and by substituting vitamin B12 and zinc in order to the meat’s nutritional based components.

The research team compared 18 samples of a popular plant-based meat alternative to the 18 grass-fed beef samples from a ranch obtained from Idaho. The analysis provided by 36 carefully cooked patties concluded that 171 out of the 190 metabolites that were measured varied heavily between the beef and plant-based meat substitute. These metabolites are important for the human health and are found in exclusive in beef, creatine, spermine, anserine, cysteamine, flucosamine, squalene, and the Omega 3 acid DHA. The team notes that these ingredients have the ability to diffuse vital physiological, anti-inflammatory, and or immunomodulatory factors. The team further concludes the study that these products should be viewed as a substitute to nutritional components for the moment.