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They're just like all the fake meats now.
I can't find anything to say that they would be healthier than actually having red meat because they're incredibly processed.
You look at the ingredient list on them.
Yes, they're a viable option if you don't want to have red meat and you're vegetarian.
Maybe you want to have some of those, but they're nothing like the original foods they came from at all.
Yes, exactly right.
And gluten free is a good example.
There's been some research done in this area that overall a gluten free diet, if you're substituting like for like, so a regular product versus a gluten free product, that gluten free product is more expensive and it will be slightly less nutritionally better because there's more processing and changes to it.
Of course, if you have to have a gluten-free diet, of course, you have to, but just going for foods labelled as gluten-free may just be a sign for marketing spin for companies obviously trying to get into the market, into the niche for the popularity of this sort of diet.
Many years ago, we had the Atkins fad back in the 2000s.
Everything was low-carb.
We had all these low-carb products.
You could buy low-carb coffee.
There was low-carb vodka.
Crazy.
but people bought this.
Incredibly low carb.
So a lot of it's marketing spin.
When you see the labels for it, it generally is a sign that it's going to be more expensive and it will be maybe not as good for you nutritionally.
Oh, really?