Are Vegan Alternatives to Meat Products Healthy? A Study on Nutrients and Main Ingredients of Products Commercialized in Brazil

• Main Authors: Bernardo Romão (Author), Raquel Braz Assunção Botelho (Author), Eduardo Yoshio Nakano (Author), António Raposo (Author), Heesup Han (Author), Alejandro Vega-Muñoz (Author), Antonio Ariza-Montes (Author), Renata Puppin Zandonadi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Proteins are essential components in human nutrition, and animal products are usually the primary sources of human ingestion. However, the number of adherents to vegetarian and vegan diets has grown significantly, highlighting the need for alternatives to replace animal proteins. Meat substitutes ai...