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[Tom L.]

Scientists Just Reduced People's Biological Age With A Four-Week Diet

A team of scientists has managed to reverse biological age in older adults using a four-week plant-forward diet

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OK- I spotted a glaring error: The researchers found that all but the omnivorous high-fat group showed reductions in biological age, and that the omnivorous high-carb group, which got 53 percent of its protein from carbohydrates, showed the most notable reduction in biological age.

You can't get protein from carbohydrates; everyone who frequents this board knows that proteins and carbs are two of the major (by weight), but different, nutrients of foods. The author may have meant "53% of their protein from carbohydrate-rich foods", which is an understandable error- but still, that's a major error, and casts doubt on the accuracy of the whole article.

 

[shyvas]

Revo Foods Launches Mycoprotein Chicken Alternative in Austria, Germany, and Italy - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

Austrian food tech company Revo Foods is expanding beyond seafood-style products with the launch of EL POLLO, a mycoprotein-based chicken alternative rolling

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[shyvas]

Beyond Meat Expands Beyond Immerse into New York Retail with 26,000-Outlet Distribution Deal - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

Beyond Immerse, a sparkling plant-based protein drink that combines pea protein, tapioca fiber, antioxidants, and electrolytes, is now available across more

vegconomist.com

 

[shyvas]

https://vegconomist.com/ingredients/broccoli-waste-ingredient-startup-upp-passes-top-food-safety-audit-first-try/

 

[shyvas]

DR.VEGAN Takes on VAT Cost for PMS Supplement in Response to UK Tax Gap - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

UK vegan supplement brand DR.VEGAN has announced it will permanently absorb the VAT on its PMS Hero supplement, reducing the price consumers pay in response

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[shyvas]

PLANTA Closes Toronto Locations After Bankruptcy Restructuring, Bets on US Recovery - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

Plant-based restaurant chain PLANTA has permanently closed its two remaining Canadian locations, ending its presence in the city where the brand was born a

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[shyvas]

Subway has just added a new plant-based BBQ filling to its menu

Subway has unveiled a new plant-based BBQ Pulled Plant Protein filling for summer, bringing smoky barbecue flavours to its plant-based menu.

www.veganfoodandliving.com

 

[Emma JC]

OK- I spotted a glaring error: The researchers found that all but the omnivorous high-fat group showed reductions in biological age, and that the omnivorous high-carb group, which got 53 percent of its protein from carbohydrates, showed the most notable reduction in biological age.

You can't get protein from carbohydrates; everyone who frequents this board knows that proteins and carbs are two of the major (by weight), but different, nutrients of foods. The author may have meant "53% of their protein from carbohydrate-rich foods", which is an understandable error- but still, that's a major error, and casts doubt on the accuracy of the whole article.

I am going to challenge that a bit as many people might consider a potato a "carbohydrate" as that term is used loosely and I think that is what the author may have been trying to point out. Potatoes contain protein albeit a much larger component is carbohydrate - or green peas or beans, chia seeds etc which are a great combination of both protein and carbs. So technically you are correct in the you can't get 'protein' from 'carbohydrates' however there are very few foods that are pure carbohydrates so using that term to refer to a group of foods, IMO, is more the norm. The only pure carbohydrate foods would be things like table sugar, honey, syrups and pure starches and to a lesser extent white rice / white bread.

No doubts about the accuracy for me.

Emma JC
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[Emma JC]

PLANTA Closes Toronto Locations After Bankruptcy Restructuring, Bets on US Recovery - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

Plant-based restaurant chain PLANTA has permanently closed its two remaining Canadian locations, ending its presence in the city where the brand was born a

vegconomist.com

I have never even heard of them.

Emma JC
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[Lou]

OK- I spotted a glaring error: The researchers found that all but the omnivorous high-fat group showed reductions in biological age, and that the omnivorous high-carb group, which got 53 percent of its protein from carbohydrates, showed the most notable reduction in biological age.

You can't get protein from carbohydrates; everyone who frequents this board knows that proteins and carbs are two of the major (by weight), but different, nutrients of foods. The author may have meant "53% of their protein from carbohydrate-rich foods", which is an understandable error- but still, that's a major error, and casts doubt on the accuracy of the whole article.

not a typo but I think its just the author "misspeaking"
I'm pretty sure what he meant is "which got 53 percent of its Calories from carbohydrates. " It is common for diets to be divide into low carb and high carb diets. high carb is usually over 60% of calories from carbs. So 53% is still not a high carb diet. But a moderate carb diet.

In many other studies Moderate Carb diets have shown to be healthiest.

 

[shyvas]

For all the progress in plant-based dairy, one thing has been stubbornly hard to replicate: casein, the protein that gives cheese its stretch, melt, and richness.
A food-tech company has now produced that exact protein using microbes instead of cows, and it just entered active review with US regulators, a step it says no precision-fermented casein has reached before in this country.
The result is a dairy protein that is molecularly identical to what comes from a cow, minus the cow, the lactose, the hormones, and the herd.
The company expects a regulatory green light later this year and plans to start putting samples in front of US food manufacturers this summer.
If it delivers, the tired excuse that vegan cheese "just doesn't melt right" may finally be headed for the history books.

Vegan Vibes

 

[shyvas]

Why Mexico City Is the World's Most Exciting Vegan Food Destination Right Now | The Vegan Week

From al pastor tacos built on seitan to three kinds of mole served side by side, Mexico City is doing something to plant-based food that almost no other city in the world is doing in 2026.

www.thevegansweek.com

 

[PTree15]

Why Mexico City Is the World's Most Exciting Vegan Food Destination Right Now | The Vegan Week

From al pastor tacos built on seitan to three kinds of mole served side by side, Mexico City is doing something to plant-based food that almost no other city in the world is doing in 2026.

www.thevegansweek.com

Interesting. Cheap Lazy Vegan sponsors several vegan trips a year, and Mexico City is one of her favorites.

 

[shyvas]

Interesting. Cheap Lazy Vegan sponsors several vegan trips a year, and Mexico City is one of her favorites.

Together with meals that I've had in Brighton and London, Mexican (Southern Cali) vegan cuisine is one of the best that I've ever tasted.

 

[shyvas]

The map of where slaughter free meat is legal keeps expanding.
By mid 2026, cultivated meat, produced from animal cells in bioreactors instead of from slaughtered animals, has received regulatory approval in seven jurisdictions: Singapore, the United States, Israel, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, and Australia and New Zealand under their joint FSANZ framework.
Singapore led the way in December 2020 when it cleared Eat Just's Good Meat chicken, becoming the first country in the world to approve cultivated meat for human consumption. It has since approved Vow's quail and, in April 2026, Parima's cultivated duck, which will be sold under the Gourmey brand. In the United States, five cultivated meat products have cleared the joint FDA and USDA review process: Upside Foods, Good Meat, Wildtype salmon, Mission Barns pork fat, and Believer Meats poultry. Believer shuttered its operations in December 2025, a reminder that regulatory approval and commercial viability are not the same milestone.

The United Kingdom may be the next major market. The Food Standards Agency is targeting February 2027 for the completion of cultivated meat safety evaluations under its dedicated regulatory sandbox, after which ministerial approval would be required before products reach restaurant menus and supermarket shelves.

Pushback continues. Italy passed a law banning cultivated meat sales in 2023, and several US states have introduced similar legislation. Even so, the global trajectory is clear. The industry is moving from proof of concept to early market entry, with companies pursuing limited restaurant pilots rather than supermarket aisles<;

The Vegan Week

 

[shyvas]

UK Retailers Have Plant-Based Distribution Locked In, but New Report Says They're Losing Sales at the Shelf - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

A new report from ProVeg International and food systems consultancy Planeatry Alliance concludes that UK supermarkets have largely solved the plant-based

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[shyvas]

Silk Extends Protein Line into Yogurt and Ready-to-Drink Shakes - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

Danone's Silk brand is adding two new products to its Silk Protein range: a plant-based yogurt and a shelf-stable ready-to-drink protein shake, both rolling

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[shyvas]

Mycoprotein Displaces Beef Volume in New QuornPro Hybrid Range for UK Foodservice - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine

William White Meats has partnered with QuornPro to launch a four-product range that replaces a portion of beef with Quorn's fermentation-derived mycoprotein,

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