Vegetarian Star

Bill Gates is praising flexitarian diets and faux meat products in a feature on his personal blog, The Gates Notes.

Topics discussed in “The Future of Food” include the decline in meat consumption, the need to reduce meat intake for environmental impact, faux meat companies and an interview with Michael Pollan.

Meat lovers may benefit from the influx of vegetarian meat companies.

Gates sampled such products and was convinced a faux chicken cutlet was the real thing.

Not only are faux meat products tasty and better for the environment, they are often lower in fat and sodium and will almost always contain very little or no cholesterol.

From The Gates Notes:

“Compnies like Beyond Meat and Hampton Creek Foods are experimenting with new ways to use heat and pressure to turn plants into foods that look and taste just like meat and eggs. I tasted Beyond Meat’s chicken alternative and was impressed. I couldn’t tell the difference between Beyond Meat and real chicken. Beyond Eggs, Hampton Creek Foods’ egg substitute, doesn’t contain the high cholesterol of real eggs. Even spices are getting re-made: a company called Nu-Tek Food Science has found a way to make potassium chloride taste just like salt, with only a fraction of the sodium.”

Photo: World Economic Forum/Creative Commons

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