Plants Now Have "Meaty" Nutrients:
Our body needs certain vitamins and nutrients to keep it powered. In meat we can get so many more benefits, than just eating plants and veggies. Recently, in the month of February researches have been working on a study to take some of those same benefits found in meat and give them to plants. It is said in the article, "This might one day let vegetarians and vegans rely on plants for the full range of nutrients their bodies need." In order to get the animal-type nutrients, the plant leaves need certain enzymes that they don't typically have. Enzymes are proteins that typically speed up chemical reactions inside living things. The team made up multiple sets of genetic instructors and each different set had a different combination of amino acids and nutrients that they can make. The treated leaves gave two kinds of animal-type nutrients with one being creatine and the other created was carnosine.
hi amanda! your blog post was very interesting! my dad is a vegan and before he started this journey, he bought so many books so he was able to educate himself on what to eat, where to get it, cook books, etc. i think that it is so cool to know that they have discovered this; especially because the meat of animals that we eat, all consume plants! would you ever become a vegan?
ReplyDeleteThis is a really interesting discovery. I do wonder what the process of this looks like and how it impacts the animals. Many vegetarians and vegans have chosen that lifestyle because they disagree with how animals are treated in facilities, so making sure the animals are cared for would be high priority for many people. BUT as someone who is vegetarian and sometimes struggles to find things with specific nutrients, this could be a total game changer!
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