Why go for plant-based alternatives? 🌱

Talking about plant-based diet, it has becoming a trend recent day. But there are still some people have the opinion it is boring, not appetizing, and lack of nutrients. However, it is not as bad as it. Lots of nutrients can be obtained if you plan the diet correct. Moreover, most of the benefits can be obtained in the plant-based diet (vegetables, fruits, wholegrains, beans, nuts) more if compared to animal-based diet (meat). Fibre, vitamins, minerals and healthy fats, are rich in the plant-based diet. Phytochemicals are also rich in this diet and beneficial to our health, since it provides the body’s systems protection properties (Warren, 2015).



Benefits of having plant-based diet 🌱🌾

1. Lower the Cardiovascular Disease risk factors
Plant-Based diet is high fibre and healthy fats, which can lower serum cholesterol concentrations.

2. Lower hypertension
Plant-Based diet as the one of the diets to reduce hypertension, along with exsercise and low-sodium diet (Patel, Chandra, Alexander, Soble, Williams, 2017).

3. Help to lower body weight
According to Patton & Zumpano (2012), there are studies show that plant-based diet may help to lower body weight, as this diet is rich in fibre, therefore it provides longer satiation.

4. Save our earth 🌏
do you know by eating plant-based food has a big contribution to our earth? Yes. When you consume plant-based food, it reduces the carbon footprint, conserving water, saving animal and plant habitats, and lastly, clean air for our self! (Ventrice, 2015). Thanks Hero for your contribution!

5. Save your money! 🤑💸
Well, healthy does not mean that you have to buy an expensive food. Plant-based food can help you to save your money plus have a healthy delicious food.

Protein Deficiency??

However, there are pros and cons regarding to “Plant-base diet do not provide enough protein”. In fact, there are many plant-based foods that are rich in protein such as tempeh, tofu, soya bean, soymilk, quinoa, beans, lentils, nuts and seeds, and many more options. To obtain enough vitamins and minerals, drink milk such as soy, almond, rice, or hemp milk as your alternatives which are loaded with calcium and vitamin D (Patton & Zumpano, 2012).

In signature market, we can find several products that are plant-based product, such as Tiger Milk Mushroom Rye Oat Milk, and Millet Cocoa Milk. Tiger Milk Mushroom Rye Oat Milk has the taste of mild oat flavour, while Millet Cocoa Milk has the taste more to creamy and smooth chocolate milk. These products have numerous of minerals and vitamins which is good for our body.





- THERE IS NO DIET THAT WILL DO WHAT HEALTHY EATING DOES -

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References

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Warren, R. M. (2015). The Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet.

Pushparajah, V., Fatima, A., Chong, C., Gambule, T., Chan, C., & Ng, S. et al. (2016). Characterisation of a New Fungal Immunomodulatory Protein from Tiger Milk mushroom, Lignosus rhinocerotis. Scientific Reports 6(1). doi: 10.1038/srep30010

Sarita, Singh, E. (2016). Potential of Millets: Nutrients Composition and Health Benefits. Journal of Scientific and Innovative Research 5(2), 46-50.

Ventrice, M. (2015). 5 Ways Eating More Plant-Based Foods Benefits the Environment.