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Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1879" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200129-why-vegan-junk-food-may-be-even-worse-for-your-health" target="_blank"><strong>Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health - BBC</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>While we might switch to a plant-based diet with the best intentions, the unseen risks of vegan fast foods might not show up for years.</strong></p><p></p><p>No British train station or high street would be complete without a Greggs bakery. The merchants of mass-produced pastries are as quintessential as they come. And last year they <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46809868" target="_blank">won plaudits for turning vegan</a>. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50726619" target="_blank">On the back of their success, other fast food brands shortly followed suit</a>.</p><p></p><p>In fact, Greggs’s vegan sausage rolls have been so successful, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51034201" target="_blank">the company announced a “phenomenal year” for sales</a> in 2019 driven in part by their new product and that they would share a £7m ($9.17m) bonus equally between staff.</p><p></p><p>Like the sausage roll, another staple of British fast food, fish and chips, has had a vegan make-over. Replacing cod or haddock with the plant-based tofu (sometimes also with a layer of crispy nori seaweed to create the effect of fish skin), vegans can now enjoy “tofish” with their chips.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1879, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200129-why-vegan-junk-food-may-be-even-worse-for-your-health'][B]Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health - BBC[/B][/URL] [B]While we might switch to a plant-based diet with the best intentions, the unseen risks of vegan fast foods might not show up for years.[/B] No British train station or high street would be complete without a Greggs bakery. The merchants of mass-produced pastries are as quintessential as they come. And last year they [URL='https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46809868']won plaudits for turning vegan[/URL]. [URL='https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50726619']On the back of their success, other fast food brands shortly followed suit[/URL]. In fact, Greggs’s vegan sausage rolls have been so successful, [URL='https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51034201']the company announced a “phenomenal year” for sales[/URL] in 2019 driven in part by their new product and that they would share a £7m ($9.17m) bonus equally between staff. Like the sausage roll, another staple of British fast food, fish and chips, has had a vegan make-over. Replacing cod or haddock with the plant-based tofu (sometimes also with a layer of crispy nori seaweed to create the effect of fish skin), vegans can now enjoy “tofish” with their chips. [/QUOTE]
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