• Custoslibera@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’d also be great if they were nutritionally equivalent.

    Plant based meats aren’t equivalent to animal meat on that front.

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      1 year ago

      Plant-based diets are usually superior, health-wise, to meat-based diets.

      There are a couple of nutrients that vegan diets at one point may have fell short in, like B12 and D being common examples, but at this point those are present in fortified vegan milks or breads.

      The only other ones I can think of off the top of my head are a fatty acid present in fish, that is easily supplemented. Or less essential nutrients like taurine, which are also easily supplemented if one finds that they really need higher levels.

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          1 year ago

          Not really. Protein is not something particularly difficult in a reasonably balanced vegan diet, for most people. There are plenty of dietary sources of protein in vegan cooking.

          Anybody requiring particularly high levels of protein is probably already supplementing it. Usually with vegan sources anyway.

          Of all the possible deficiencies in a vegan diet, protein is by far the least of people’s, already small, worries.