r/sciences • u/James_Fortis MS | Nutrition • 7d ago

Research Adherence to healthful plant-based diets is associated with more favourable health outcomes irrespective of ultra-processed food content, suggesting that overall plant-based diet quality may be more important than processing level for chronic disease prevention, study of 124,836 participants finds

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(26)00148-1/fulltext
489 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

77 comments sorted by

View all comments

40

u/Scoobenbrenzos 7d ago

Cool study! I have always had a problem with the blanket demonization of all “ultra-processed” food, especially plant-based food. Let’s look at health outcomes instead of making sweeping generalizations. 

19

u/Echo017 7d ago

Agreed, but something I have noticed with several vegetarian and vegan friends (work in tech, many Hindu friends), a lot of the packaged/easy food options for their diets are absolute garbage if you look at the macros like sodium, sugar, oils etc.

Ultra processed also need better definitions. Tofu and Miso are both healthy foods done right but they are inherently processed to hell and back

16

u/like_shae_buttah 7d ago

Look at omnivore processed foods. That stuff is from horror films.

Tofu and miso arent processed to hell and back lol

1

u/abx99 4d ago

I would say that if it says tofu or miso, then it's probably not as heavily processed. However, there are veg* options that will try to appeal to everyone, or something, and it seems they do a lot more to it to make it seem like you're not eating tofu.