Designing the scientifically ideal, healthy, planet-saving diet is turning out to be a lot harder than we thought
This is i on Science with Clare Wilson, a subscriber-only newsletter from i. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single week,They are sourced from lab-designed headless blobs, which sprout multiple chicken breasts that can be sliced off as needed. One character says it is “like eating a giant wart”.
In an effort to change things, this week a new research programme was launched to develop better meat and dairy substitutes, in a collaboration between industry and four UK universities, called the National Alternative Protein Innovation Centre.“Our ambition is to create this massive innovation ecosystem so that it can drive the UK to become the global superpower in alternative proteins,” said project leader Professor Anwesha Sarkar at the University of Leeds.
The claim is that the healthiest diets are based around home-cooked meals using meat, dairy products and plants as they are more or less found in nature. While some people are vegan or vegetarian for ethical or environmental reasons, there are also concerns that eating too much red meat and processed meat is bad for the heart..
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