Is eating plant-based truly healthier?

No matter where you go today, the grocery store or even shopping online will result in you coming across products that are plant-based. The food industry wants you to reduce the carbon footprint by having you eat more plant-based products and less meat but what does that mean really?

Previously, plant-based eating meant eating salads, whole foods, vegetables, fruits, etc but today it means eating burgers that are similar to a real burger but still vegetarian! So we are substituting a bunch of chemicals for another set, under the pretense of it being healthier? Think of it another way, just cause pizza is made from cauliflower crust, does it really make the pizza healthier? What else was added to make it taste good and similar to regular pizza? Another example is sugar and replacing it with monk fruit sweetener may make it taste sweeter but did you actually make your beverage healthier just because you added a plant-based ingredient to it?

Questions like these are important to ask before you buy your healthier product item because marketing can sure make anything sound better but the effects are going to be dependent on each individual. The company’s intentions are correct but the question again becomes when did plant-based eating starting originating in the lab or manufacturing plant versus a farm?