30/08/2026
The moment you put âplant-basedâ on a burger, half the internet suddenly develops a PhD in food processing.
âULTRA-PROCESSED!â
Mate, you ate a sausage made from an animal, wrapped in plastic, and cooked until it resembled a house fire.
But apparently the real emergency is pea protein.
And this is where nutrition gets fu***ng stupid.
People have decided that if they canât pronounce an ingredient, it must be killing them.
Methylcellulose?
Terrifying.
Except itâs literally a plant-derived fibre used to give food structure.
Meanwhile, saturated fat gets served on a brioche bun and suddenly itâs âancestral nourishment.â
Brilliant.
And no, Iâm not claiming a vegan burger is a magical health food.
Itâs a burger.
But controlled trials have found that replacing animal meat with plant-based alternatives can improve markers like LDL cholesterol, with some studies also showing reductions in TMAO.
So maybe stop judging a food by whether its ingredient list looks like something your great-grandad would recognise.
Your great-grandad also didnât have a fridge.
Food isnât âhealthyâ because it looks rustic and comes wrapped in butcher paper.
And it isnât automatically unhealthy because a factory made it.
The question is what the food contains, what it replaces, and what the rest of your diet looks like.
Thatâs the bit the internet keeps conveniently forgetting.
You can eat a beautifully organic, artisanal, locally sourced diet of absolute s**t.
You can also eat a plant-based burger occasionally and have a perfectly fu***ng reasonable diet.
Nobody needs to worship meat alternatives
Nobody needs to fear them either.
Read the label.
Look at the whole diet.
And if removing an animal from your burger is somehow more offensive to you than the saturated fat that came with it, maybe the problem isnât the ingredients.
Maybe itâs the ideology.
If you want to stop guessing and actually learn how to build meals that support energy, performance and health, my 1:1 coaching is open.
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