Food Frontier, an independent think tank on alternative proteins in Australia and New Zealand, has released a first-of-its-kind report that analyses the health and nutrition of plant-based meat products available in said countries, citing Sunfed […]
A new vegan app designed for tracking nutrition, health, and physical activity, has launched on the App Store. Plantevo allows users to quickly log their foods, supplements, water, measurements, fasts, and physical activity throughout the […]
GlobalData has released a report asserting that vegan food producers should be open to scrutiny in terms of their sustainability and health claims. It cites Plenish and Quorn as examples of companies who are getting ahead […]
Swine flu has been raging in China for more than ten years, and experts estimate that up to 200 million more pigs will die from the disease or will have to be killed and disposed […]
With an agenda first presented in March 2019, the Singaporean government is taking numerous measures in the agribusiness sector to free itself from its dependence on imports and be able to provide its population with […]
According to a new study, a vegan diet is the “single biggest measure” that can be taken to reduce environmental pollution. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that not eating meat and dairy products […]
“Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food” once postulated Hippocrates. His statement is more contemporary than ever, and inline with this philosophy, the Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN), founded in 2018, […]
The German magazine SPIEGEL recently commissioned ecologist Joseph Poor of the University of Oxford, UK, to calculate the carbon footprint of a German vegan. The results showed that vegans produce nine tons of greenhouse gases […]
Eating is no longer the only way to experience food. Cooking shows, food blogs, and bestselling books, and also new foods, nutrition concepts, and marketing promises have made nutrition into a kind of pop culture.
The demand for vegan products is now no longer restricted to food; the growth in vegan fashion and interiors is also picking up speed. Designers and manufacturers from the scene report that an industry-wide change […]
Over one million participants from 100 countries in over 2000 cities took part in the largest Fridays-for-Future demonstrations to date on 15th March. Climate change activist Greta Thunberg fascinates not only children and young adults, […]
Rapeseed contains not just oil, but also high-quality protein. However, protein extracts from rapeseed have an intense, bitter flavor. A team led by food chemist Thomas Hofmann has now identified the substance that is responsible […]
In a new study, researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have investigated vegans’, vegetarians’ and omnivores’ attitude to diets which include insects. Vegetarians and omnivores were found to be open to including insects in […]
A recent study by the website Nu.nl on the eating habits of the Dutch population shows that a large proportion of Dutch people have significantly reduced their meat consumption. For example, a good two out […]
According to a new study published by ScienceDaily, eating a vegan diet could be much more environmentally friendly than consuming local products. With regards to eating habits in the European Union, meat and dairy products […]
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