Consumers often still see meat substitutes as unhealthy, but the composition of these products is improving rapidly. New research now shows they even contain less salt than comparable meat products. Still, their sales figures do not follow the same upward trajectory.
“More healthy than (comparable) meat
More than half (56 %) of meat substitutes now contain less salt than the health guidelines set by the Dutch Voedingscentrum (Nutrition Centre) (1.1 grams of salt per hundred grams of product). In doing so, they now do even better than the meat products they are meant to replace: ‘only’ exactly half of these meet the prescribed guideline, a study by interest group ProVeg shows.
