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Walmart has Quorn. Everybody’s got a Walmart.
The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat
[] The other thing is, you talk to your grocer and say, hi. If you get in Quorn grounds and Quorn chicken tenders, I’ll buy it. And that’ll usually get a grocer interested. But you gotta look in the vegetarian freezer section. And word of warning: most of the Quorn products are not approved. Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.
To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. You may have heard about meat made out of wheat protein, meat made out of soybean protein, and meats made out of pea protein, but mycoprotein is a relatively new addition. Environmental impact-wise, Quorn beef has at least a 10 times smaller carbon footprint than that of beef; Quorn chicken at least four times better than chicken-chicken.
But, most importantly, there have been clinical trials showing it may help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels, and improve satiety. No surprise given that not only the fiber but the mycoprotein itself is fermentable by our good gut bugs, so can also act as a prebiotic for our friendly flora. There have been rare authenticated reports of people with mycoprotein allergies, and even more with unvalidated complaints, but given how many billions of packages have been sold, the rate of allergic reactions may be on the order of like 1 in 9 million.
So, significant drops in total and LDL cholesterol—more than 30 points within eight weeks. In terms of satiety, as I noted in my Evidence-Based Weight Loss presentation, both tofu and Quorn have been found to have satiating qualities that are stronger than chicken; for Quorn, among both lean subjects and overweight and obese individuals, cutting down on subsequent meal intake hours later. Apparently, just regular chocolate was not enough to make chicken look better.
But what happens when chicken is pitted against a real control, like chicken without the actual chicken? Chicken chickens out. For example, feed people a chicken and rice lunch, and four and a half hours later, they eat 18 percent more of a dinner buffet than those who instead got a Quorn and rice lunch——cutting about calories on average. Part of the reason plant-based meats may be less fattening is that they cause less of an insulin spike.
A meat-free chicken like Quorn causes up to 41 percent less of an immediate insulin reaction.
It turns out animal protein causes almost exactly as much insulin release as pure sugar. Just adding some egg whites to your diet can increase insulin output 60 percent within four days. And fish may be even worse. Why would adding tuna to mashed potatoes spike up insulin levels, but adding broccoli instead drop the insulin response by about 40 percent? So, why does animal protein make things worse, but plant protein makes things better?
Plant proteins tend to be lower in the branched-chain amino acids, which are associated with insulin resistance—the cause of type 2 diabetes. You can show this experimentally. Give some vegans branched-chain amino acids, and you can make them as insulin-resistant as omnivores. Or, take omnivores and put them through even a hour vegan diet challenge, and within two days you can see the opposite—significant improvements in metabolic signatures.
Is Quorn Bad For You?
Check this out. Those randomized to restrict their protein intake were averaging literally hundreds more calories per day; so, they should have become fatter, right? But no, they actually lost more body fat. Restricting their protein enabled them to eat more calories, while at the same time they lost more weight. More calories, yet a loss of body fat! They were just having people eat the recommended amount of protein.
So, maybe they should have just called this the normal protein group, or the recommended protein group, and the group that was eating more typical American protein levels, and suffering because of it, the excess protein group. They are found mostly in meat, including chicken and fish, dairy products, and eggs, perhaps explaining why animal protein has been associated with higher diabetes risk, whereas plant protein appears protective.
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