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by pengaru 1863 days ago
Agreed, processed meat substitutes are a solution looking for a problem. Mushrooms are already basically meat.
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Mushrooms have very few calories and little protein or fat. A person becomes hungry again soon after eating mushrooms. The only thing they have in common with meat is umami flavor.
I don't like mushrooms. Texture is too weird for my autism. So the meat substitutes are good for me...
To each their own, that's the definitive answer for me.

I am happy to have both options anyway.

Mushrooms = actually nutritional. Fake meat = highly processed oils which are not.

Just because you are on the spectrum does not mean junk food is healthy, kindly from another autistic.

I didn't say it was healthy.
With all due respect, what do autism and texture have to do with each other?
Autistic people often have sensory issues that lead to strong aversions to various types of food (among other things). Very commonly autistic people dislike banana