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Vegan food: taste, healthy, filling - pick 2

These are all three: https://www.beanit.fi/en/our-products/

It's just processed fava beans, nothing unhealthy.

Their tex-mex mince (not on the english pages for some reason) is superior to minced meat in my opinion. It keeps in the fridge for weeks (can't do that with raw meat) and the texture is pretty similar. Less fat, more protein.

Replace healthy with unprocessed then. Vegans sure love their processed foods.

Of course it's going to be processed unless you're getting it straight from the field. That website's ingredient list for their unflavored grounds:

Water, pea protein, fava bean (9 %, Finland), rapeseed oil.

Looks fairly minimal to me. "Vegans love their processed foods" is a weird take, I don't think they likely eat more processed foods than your typical American.

The ingredients aren't the main problem. The main problem is that a lot of nutritional value is stripped out during the various industrial processes. This causes one to not feel as sated as they would from the same caloric amount of non-processed food, and causes overeating.

What are the ingredients in potato fries?

American or European?

European fries are potato, oil, salt.

And since potatos are healthy, and vegans believe seed oils are healthy, surely their sum (potato fries) must also be healthy, correct?

Being vegan doesn't always mean eating healthy, even though people have that idea in their head.

In Finland we have a FB group called "Chips and Beer -vegans"[0] with 65k members. Potato chips are vegan, beer is vegan. You can have both and still be vegan. It's not healthy, but still vegan.

I can deep-fry my tofu in the fattiest of all vegan fats and eat them with deep-fried french fries and a bunch of deep-fried Oreos.

Still vegan.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/groups/1701571030062709

But it’s much easier to sustain a healthy diet as an omnivore, because as I mentioned, whole vegan food either lacks in satiety or taste. Which is why you typically see vegans trying to attack protein to address criticisms of satiety, or trying to defend processed foods to address criticisms of taste.

Wait what. "whole vegan food either lacks in satiety or taste" :D

Now go into the nearest Indian restaurant and order a Chana Aloo Curry. Or pick a Thai restaurant and grab any food with tofu in it. I recommend a Pad Thai.

Both 100% vegan and if they lack "satiety or taste", then come back.

In asian cuisine the protein really doesn't matter, 99% of the flavour is in the sauce. The protein just provides the texture.

Potatoes are healthy is not a take I see often.

In my experience it is the opposite, being that I only practice veganism every other day, I'm always looking forward to my vegan days for the variety of whole veggies and beans and grains I "have" to eat on those days. Always satisfying.

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