But other sustainable eating habits, like the flexitarian diet, continue to be highly ranked by expertsThe other standout winner this year was the flexitarian diet.
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This is more than simple "flexitarian" or "reducetarian" behavior, too.
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Most restaurants are chasing flexitarian eaters rather than strict vegans.
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Now root your new flexitarian habits into your life for good.
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For example, Blatner, who was not involved in the Nature study, offers three levels of the diet in her book "The Flexitarian Diet": a "beginner" flexitarian, who consumes six to eight meatless meals per week (or is limited to 26 ounces of animal protein); an "advanced" flexitarian, who eats nine to 14 meatless meals per week (or is limited to 18 ounces of animal protein); and an "expert" flexitarian, who eats at least 15 meatless meals or limits animal protein to 9 ounces per week.
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What Leclerc referred to as "flexitarian diets" will reshape many food categories.
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KETO, PALEO, FLEXITARIAN Kroger has a 400-person team developing its brands.
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We have vegan, vegetarian and flexitarian options for climate change-conscious cooks.
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As a self-identifying flexitarian, I cook mostly plant-based recipes for myself.
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We're beginning to look beyond flexitarian and food's impact on our own bodies.
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For fair skin tones, there's the Waffle palette that has Scrumptious, Glazed, and Flexitarian.
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Biting down, I thank myself heartily for the "flexi" part of my flexitarian diet.
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The others were flexitarian, drinking both moo juice and the nutty or beany variety.
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Tyson (TSN) is hoping that protein-conscious, flexitarian eaters will be interested in the new products.
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And I was happy to be complicit in the expanding wave of vegan and flexitarian pragmatism.
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Introducing a tax on meat would likely accelerate the recent trend of vegetarian, vegan and "flexitarian" diets.
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As a self-proclaimed flexitarian, I chose to order a vegan quesadilla from Ivy Stark Modern Mexican.
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The burgers, a hit with consumers switching to a "flexitarian" diet, feel, smell and taste like real meat.
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They're going after the meat eaters, confident that they can swing them toward a flexitarian approach to eating.
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And it's not just vegans: Today, flexitarian eaters are buying products like Just Egg along with meat and dairy.
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"I've always thought I had a robust vocabulary, but Paul introduced me to the word 'flexitarian,'" Mr. Winograd said.
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The patties, a hit with consumers switching to a "flexitarian" diet, has a feel, smell and taste like real meat.
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Moving towards the flexitarian diet is a good start, both for the sake of our health and our water resources.
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The chain said that it is targeting flexitarian customers, people who are trying to cut down on their meat intake.
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Phipps noted that more consumers have been adopting a flexitarian lifestyle, where they reduce meat consumption for health or environmental reasons.
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And with more Americans experimenting with flexitarian diets, demand for Beyond Meat shares surged during its initial public offering earlier this month.
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The flexitarian diet is driving that growth, with nearly 60% of U.S. consumers expressing interest in eating less meat, according to Mintel.
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Kellogg, Nestle, Tyson Foods, Hormel and Smithfield are among the big names launching their own lines to appeal to a flexitarian consumer.
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Remember all those articles that came out last year advising us to switch to "flexitarian" diets in order to fight climate change?
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Choose plant as often as you can, and you'll soon be an expert-level flexitarian of 15-plus meatless meals per week.
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Musk's own diet is closest to the flexitarian diet: Musk says she typically has high-fiber cereal and 1% milk for breakfast.
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The number of Americans who choose vegan or vegetarian diets has remained stagnant over the last decade, but more are embracing "flexitarian" diets.
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The flexitarian diet is driving the growth of the market for meat alternatives, which Euromonitor expects will hit $22.9 billion globally by 2023.
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Experts agree that if you are not ready to give up meat entirely, a flexitarian diet, which is predominantly plant-based, can help.
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A study done by Waitrose shows that one in five adults follow a flexitarian diet, or reducing the amount of meat they eat.
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"It's energizing — you never feel too bogged down or groggy from overeating," Dawn Blatner, registered dietician and author of The Flexitarian Diet, tells PEOPLE.
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This year, DASH came in second, with third place going to the flexitarian diet, a plant-based diet that allows meat on rare occasions.
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I still consider myself veggie—the last incident was three months ago—but I think if you break it weekly you're just a flexitarian.
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The flexitarian diet tied with the DASH diet for second place because of its emphasis on whole grains, fruits, veggies and plant-based proteins.
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A vegan diet is more than simply a "plant-based" diet A vegan diet is much more stringent than flexitarian eating, or even vegetarianism.
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As more Americans embrace a flexitarian diet, cutting down their meat consumption for health and environmental reasons, plant-based meat substitutes are growing in popularity.
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The flexitarian diet came in third on the list of best overall diets for its emphasis on whole grains, fruits, veggies and plant-based proteins.
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" Registered dietitian nutritionist Dawn Jackson Blatner described it this way: "A flexitarian is really someone who wakes up with the intention of being more vegetarian.
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Top honors Following closely behind the Mediterranean diet were the respected DASH, Flexitarian, WW (the rebranded name popularly known as Weight Watchers) and MIND diets.
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Naturally, there's even an unofficial label for that kind of diet, referred to as 'flexitarian' — someone who eats primarily plant-based, but occasionally eats meat, too.
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The Flexitarian diet, Mayo Clinic Diet, TLC Diet, and Weight Watchers all fared well in the best overall category, forming a four-way tie for fourth place.
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The flexitarian diet, developed by the registered dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner, is geared toward those interested in being vegetarian but don't want to give up meat entirely.
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In terms of "less meat," you can become "flexitarian," you can do "Meatless Mondays," or you can even just shrink the portion of meat that you're serving.
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The flexitarian diet was second only to the Mediterranean diet in four categories, including best overall, and it was highly ranked for weight loss and heart health.
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Flexitarian eaters focus on plant-based foods but may still include animal-based foods in limited amounts, including meat, poultry and fish, as well as dairy and eggs.
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The patties were a hit with consumers switching to a "flexitarian" diet, helping the company grow its sales five- fold since it began selling its flagship Beyond Burger in 2016.
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So if you are not ready to give up meat entirely, experts say that a so-called flexitarian diet can incorporate plenty of fruits, vegetables and plant-based protein sources.
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A blend of the words flexible and vegetarian, the Flexitarian diet encourages people to eat vegetarian most of the time for better health, but doesn't call for cutting out meat entirely.
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But according to CNBC, that's not so: The Beyond Fried Chicken nuggets will be cooked in the same fryers since they're meant to target the "flexitarian" market instead of strict vegans.
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Vegan, vegetarian or so-called flexitarian diets, which involve cutting back on meat, are more popular with young and relatively well-off urban residents than with their older and less affluent counterparts.
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Sonic, the popular American burger joint, jumped on the flexitarian bandwagon at the same time, but instead of offering a meatless burger, it started offering a burger with less meat by blending beef with mushrooms.
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"As more consumers are choosing a 'flexitarian' lifestyle and actively reducing meat, we're thrilled to be extending the MorningStar Farms portfolio with a delicious and satisfying meat-like experience," said Sara Young, general manager at MorningStar.
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Ms. Pollan also likes to spend time with her mother Corky, and her sisters, Dana and Lori, with whom she wrote "Mostly Plants: 101 Delicious Flexitarian Recipes From the Pollan Family," a cookbook published in April.
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In November, research undertaken by UK supermarket chain Waitrose revealed that a third of British people now have meat-free or meat-reduced diets, with 13% identifying as vegetarian or vegan and another 21% identifying as flexitarian.
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Green Monday hits on what will likely be the final crucible in a post-animal meat world—once mass-market alternatives are widely available to a global middle class—and that's cultural willingness to adopt a flexitarian approach.
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"They're going flexitarian; they're being a lot more deliberate about the meat they're looking to eat and they're not necessarily spending more, but more and more are choosing to spend more money on higher quality," said Hartman Group consultant Roberston Allen.
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" The firm says that McDonald's is testing the burger in Canada because it "has a good representation of North American and European customers w/ flexitarian preferences, where MCD believes there is more demand for the offering than among vegans/vegetarians.
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Vegetarian and vegan diets would result in even lower greenhouse gas emissions, but a flexitarian diet "is the least stringent that is both healthy and would reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough for us to stay within environmental limits," according to Springmann.
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I came across flexitarian, semi-vegetarian, mostly vegetarian—and I think those words are great, but the problem is that there are a lot of people in the world who are not interested in only or mostly eating plant-based foods.
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For Tracy Pollan, time away during the warmer months means turning up the heat in the kitchen with her sisters Lori and Dana and mom Corky, with whom she wrote the new cookbook Mostly Plants: 101 Delicious Flexitarian Recipes from the Pollan Family.
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And yet—Warda recently decided to become vegetarian (or flexitarian, as she still eats rabbit): She never liked meat much and worries about the hormones in it, so, as part of her push for independence, she said she's only eating what she likes.
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"As the first restaurant group within the family dining category to offer a 100 percent plant-based protein option made with Beyond Meat to its menu, Denny's is meeting guests' desire to move toward a flexitarian diet," the company said this week.
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"From the consumers we see going to the meat case to buy our plant-based burgers where they're sold, we see about 70 percent of those are at least flexitarian, people that have meat in their diet as well as non-meat protein," said Brown.
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But there are a few healthy diets Musk approves of, including the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes vegetables, whole grains, legumes and olive oil; the DASH diet, a low sodium diet aimed at lowering blood pressure; and the flexitarian diet, a mostly plant-based diet.
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"By blending plants and vegetables with the Perdue chicken families love ... we are appealing to the growing number of flexitarian families who have an increased commitment to getting more plants and vegetables in their families' diets." said Eric Christianson, chief marketing officer for Perdue, in a statement.
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Four diets tied for second place in the US News and World Report ranking: the DASH diet, the flexitarian diet, the Volumetrics diet and the Mayo Clinic diet, which says it provides personalized meal plans, weight and fitness trackers and the expertise of nearly a dozen experts.
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Call it flexitarian, reductaterian or just an interest in testing out new plant-based foods, surveys have found that 22 percent of Americans are working on consuming less meat, and 39 percent — which includes 50 percent of millennials — are trying to eat more plant-based foods.
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"The Beyond Burger has been one of the most eagerly anticipated food launches of the year and we believe that this fantastic tasting patty will be a real game changer for anyone considering going vegan or trying a flexitarian diet," said Tesco Prepared Foods Selling Manager Martyn Doble in a statement.
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When it comes to diabetes, four diets tied for second place in the US News and World Report ranking: the DASH diet, the flexitarian diet, the Volumetrics diet and the Mayo Clinic diet, which says it provides personalized meal plans, weight and fitness trackers and the expertise of nearly a dozen experts.
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"If you think about it, seasonally, $800 million of meat are consumed in the weeks leading up to the Fourth of July, so just in time for consumers to have family barbecues and parties, this offers a 'flexitarian' a way to serve and cook a full portfolio of plant-based offerings for their family," said Sara Young, Morningstar Farm's general manager of plant-based protein.
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A semi-vegetarian diet (SVD), also called a flexitarian diet, is one that is centered on plant foods with the occasional inclusion of meat. Flexitarian is a portmanteau of the words flexible and vegetarian, signifying its followers' less strict diet pattern when compared to other vegetarian pattern diets.
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Vegetarianism is the strict practice of abstaining from consuming meat. Flexitarianism is a neoteric term that gained a considerable increase in usage in both science and public sectors in the 2010s. Flexitarian was listed in the mainstream Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary in 2012. In 2003, the American Dialect Society voted flexitarian as the year's most useful word.
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Rützler is married to cultural scholar, playwright and journalist Wolfgang Reiter and lives in Vienna and Primmersdorf in Lower Austria. She is a flexitarian.
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He has spoken publicly about his vegan diet and has since transitioned to what he refers to as a "flexitarian" diet after his heart transplant.
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In 2019, an international group stated that the adoption of the flexitarian diet would "save lives, feed 10 billion people and all without causing catastrophic damage to the planet," when compared to the current western diet. The term flexitarian has been criticized by some vegetarians and vegans as an oxymoron because people following the diet are not vegetarians but omnivores as they still consume the flesh of animals. Iacobbo, Karen; Iacobbo, Michael. (2006). Vegetarians and Vegans in America Today. Praeger. pp. 164-168.
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In November 2017, Dent won 'Reviewer of the Year' at the London Restaurant Festival. Unusually for a restaurant critic, she has been "mainly vegan" since the early 2010s, describing herself as plant-based or a flexitarian.
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Semi- vegetarianism may be the default diet for much of the world, where meals based on plant materials provide the bulk of people's regular energy intake. One estimate is that 14% of the global population is flexitarian.
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Blatner maintains a weekly blog called the Nutrition WOW which was named the "Best RD Blog" by Health Magazine. She has also written two books: "The Flexitarian Diet," , published by McGraw-Hill and "The Superfood Swap," published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (A Rux Martin Book).
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In 2015, she launched a line of shoes for Dafiti. For eight years she was the romantic partner of Álvaro España, vocalist of the punk band Fiskales Ad-Hok. In the early 2000s, Cristi became vegetarian, and two years later, vegan. However, she abandoned this practice in 2015 and is currently flexitarian.
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Dawn Jackson Blatner is an American Registered Dietitian, television and media personality, and published author of the books The Flexitarian Diet and The Superfood Swap. She has been hailed as Chicago's "top dietitian" and "one of the best nutritionists in the country." She is the host of the lifestyle program SEE Chicago (Shopping, Entertainment, and Events) on WGN-TV.
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Bittman has written and co-written 16 books and cookbooks. His most recent book, How to Cook Everything Fast, was released October 7, 2014. He is also the author of Vegan Before 6 P.M. and The VB6 Cookbook, where he provides all the necessary tools for making the switch to a flexitarian diet. His VB6 diet has been described as about 75% vegan.
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Pork and beef consumption are the highest, with average daily consumption four times higher than that of the UK's. National Geographic's "What the World Eats" series illustrates the global change in meat consumption. In 2011, Hong Kong's rate of consumption was 695g per day, while America's was 381g per day. According to a 2020 survey conducted by market research agency Ipsos, 34% of the Hong Kong population now practices a flexitarian or plant-based diet, which translates to more than 2.5 million HongKongers going Green Monday.
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In producing Living on the Veg, Firth and Theasby hoped to appeal beyond the vegan market, to flexitarian and even meat-eating audiences. The first episode, which was aired on 12 January 2020, featured sponsorship from the supermarket Waitrose, along with ITV's other Sunday morning cookery programming. This led to a backlash from vegans, as the Waitrose adverts featured non-vegan products and footage of farmed animals. Spokespersons from The Vegan Society and PETA argued that Waitrose could have used the adverts to showcase their plant-based products.
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In 2017, due to a petition which was signed by 220,000 people asking McDonald's for a plant-based food and an increase in US flexitarian foods which are vegan, McDonald's decided to introduce a plant-based food on the menu. It was also introduced to compete with Burger King's Impossible Whopper, and also depicted the competition as Burger wars as the demand of plant-based protein is increasing, and has become a trend. The company also made the food a permanent product on the menu in two countries. Since the release of the McVegan, McDonald's owner and operator said that “Customers have expressed interest in items from McDonald’s restaurants located in India and we’re excited to offer them the opportunity to try the long time vegetarian favorite”.
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Blatner is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD). Dawn is the Nutrition Consultant for the World Series Champion Chicago Cubs, former food and nutrition blogger with the Huffington Post, a nutrition expert on the advisory board of SHAPE Magazine, and a launch member of the People Magazine "Health Squad". She is the author of two award-winning books: The Flexitarian Diet, ranked a top plant-based diet by US News & World Report and The Superfood Swap. Dawn recently starred in (and subsequently won) the hit primetime ABC television show called, My Diet Is Better Than Yours. Dawn received Lifetime Television's “Remarkable Woman Award” for her work in the field of nutrition and has over 15 years experience working with clients to super-charge their health.
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In 2019, Europeans consumed 40% of the world total of plant-based meat alternatives out of concern for health, food security, and animal welfare. During 2019, the total retail market for plant-based foods in the U.S. was $4.5 billion, growing at 31% over the previous two years, compared to 4% for the entire retail food market. Growth of plant-based food consumption in the U.S. occurred among flexitarian consumers seeking alternative protein sources to meat, fortification with micronutrients, whole grains, and dietary fiber ingredients, meat flavor and comfort food innovations, and "clean" food product labels. In 2019, the European Union launched a program called "Smart Protein" to reuse large-scale, plant-based residues such as pasta, bread, and yeast byproducts together with whole grains, as new high protein, flavorful substitutes for meat, seafood, and dairy products.
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The McVeggie has received mixed reviews. While the notorious trend for the meat eaters to be more “flexitarian” diet was success. According to New Zealand Vegetarian Society, the offer of a McVeggie wasn’t quite vegetarian and which it represented a “missed opportunity”, and the company at their website ended up with them claiming "Not vegetarian due to our cooking method". when the New Zealand Vegetarian Society shared a post on Facebook about the McVeggie for people's opinion, Multiple user complain on social media and claimed it misleading, and expressing their annoyance that they are unable to consume the burger as it was contaminated with meat, While some people said that they feel the burger is a tiny step in the right direction, some of them described it as “disappointing”, and some also said that “They have made completely the wrong call, the world is moving towards plant-based eating and this is so off the mark, it’s almost funny,”.
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