Is Beyond Meat bad? | SCIENCE EXPLAINED

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Today we are reviewing Beyond Meat by looking at results from a randomized controlled trial that was run in Stanford University. A beautiful study design, if I do say so myself 👌

They compared the effects of Beyond Meat and Animal meat products on cardiovascular and metabolic health markers, as well as the microbiome.

Beyond Meat and other meat substitutes are getting really popular and they're getting criticized for being processed foods. Let's look at what the science says so far 👩🏻‍🔬


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Koeth, R.A., Lam-Galvez, B.R., Kirsop, J., Wang, Z., Levison, B.S., Gu, X., Copeland, M.F., Bartlett, D., Cody, D.B., Dai, H.J. and Culley, M.K., 2019. l-Carnitine in omnivorous diets induces an atherogenic gut microbial pathway in humans. The Journal of clinical investigation, 129(1), pp.373-387.

Abbasi, J., 2019. TMAO and heart disease: the new red meat risk?. Jama, 321(22), pp.2149-2151.




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