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It takes roughly 200 crushed apple seeds to seriously poison a grown adult. A juicer can pulverize that many before your coffee finishes brewing. That’s the thing nobody tells you when you buy the machine. You start feeding it whatever’s in the produce drawer, because juice is healthy and fruit is fruit, right? Mostly, sure. … Read more
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Most bottled “green” juice is dessert wearing a lab coat. It’s apple juice with a leaf of kale waved over it for the label photo. Do it yourself and you fix that in one move. The rule that separates real juice from sugar water is roughly 80% vegetables to 20% fruit. Lead with the low-sugar … Read more
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Your great-grandmother didn’t go meatless because it was trendy. She did it because a barrel of beef ran $8.00 and her husband carried home $1.32 a day. Between 1870 and 1950, most American families weren’t picking between chicken or fish. They were picking between potatoes or nothing. In the urban tenements of New York, a … Read more
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Your great-grandparents fed a family of eight through winter on nothing but what they yanked from the dirt. No meal kits. No Whole Foods run. Just a backyard plot, a root cellar packed with taters and parsnips and kohlrabi, and the kind of stubborn vegetables that shrugged off drought during the worst economic collapse this … Read more
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Your vegetarian friend just RSVP’d yes, and you’re frozen in the meat aisle like someone unplugged your brain. I’ve been there. You’ve grilled burgers since you were old enough to hold tongs, and now somebody’s showing up who won’t touch the one thing you’ve built your entire cooking personality around. Here’s what nobody tells you, … Read more
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Punch “vegan” into Google Images and brace yourself for whiplash. One result is a luminous, ageless creature spooning acai into a coconut shell. The next is a hollow-eyed phantom who apparently hasn’t slept since the first Obama term. Both are genuine. Both have receipts. I’ve watched this fight play out across comment threads, Thanksgiving tables, … Read more
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One in four people taste bitterness in vegetables at a level the rest of us will never touch. For them, broccoli doesn’t taste like broccoli. It tastes like punishment. And yet, every vegan starter guide on the internet slaps you with a photo of a salad the size of a laundry basket. I’ve stood in … Read more
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Thirty pounds. That’s the average weight gap between vegans and meat eaters in a study of 60,000 people. I spent a long time assuming the explanation was boring. They just eat less, right? Not really. That’s a fraction of the story, and frankly the least interesting part. What’s actually going on under the hood is … Read more
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Plant-based meat costs 82% more than regular meat on average. Plant-based eggs? 110% higher. Vegan cheese runs over double. But here’s what bugs me about this whole conversation. A bag of dried lentils delivers protein at roughly 2 cents per gram. Ground beef lands between 4 and 8 cents. That plant-based patty sitting in the … Read more
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I polled nine people last week on whether vegan and vegetarian mean the same thing. Seven said yes. Every single one of them blew it. It’s the kind of mix-up that feels harmless until you hand a vegetarian guest a plate drizzled with honey and they shrug, then watch a vegan guest interrogate the bread … Read more
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No matter what diet you follow, breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day for a reason. It sets you up for a day of work, or working out, or whatever else you feel like doing and this should be no different for a vegan. So, what can a vegan eat for breakfast? … Read more
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Cardiovascular diseases are a risk for anyone with certain blood pressure levels and obesity, but what about for those who follow a vegan lifestyle? Numerous studies have shed some light on Lacto-ovo vegetarians, and nonvegetarians, but not a lot of information has been given about vegans historically. With many people switching to a vegan lifestyle … Read more
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A plant-based diet is great for so many reasons, and you may be following this lifestyle for environmental, ethical, or health reasons to name a few. If it is the latter then you may be aware that vegans are often lacking in vitamin B12. This begs the question, how much B12 does a vegan need? … Read more