One Health Tweak a Week

One Health Tweak a Week

Could Plant-Based Meat Be the Healthier Choice?

Today’s meat-free burgers, mince and nuggets are more convincing than ever. But does the health case match the marketing?

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Ben Jones MD PhD
Jul 04, 2026
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A woman studies a pack of plant-based meat in a grocery store.

I remember Linda McCartney’s frozen veggie sausages arriving in the supermarket freezer aisle sometime in the early 1990s. They felt like the future: principled, ethically sound, faintly revolutionary. Then you ate one.

The future, it turned out, tasted like salty mush.

Three decades on, the category has changed beyond recognition. Today’s plant-based me…

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