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Meat substitutes: formulations and comparative analysis

2021

The nutritional quality of animal products is often overlooked in our consumers' imaginations. Sustainability for example, must takeinto account sustainability for humans, starting with meeting their nutritional needs as naturally as possible. For starters, the protein intake, inquantity per 100 g of edible food (usually cooked), greatly exceeds those of vegan equivalents, whether they are meat analogues made fromvegetable proteins or vegetarian dishes reputed to be sources of protein (chickpeas, hummus, lentils, tofu etc.). In addition, it is clear that animalproducts are protein sources of high nutritional quality (DIAAS  80) unlike vegetarian equivalents (DIAAS  80). Animal proteins ar…