A new study conducted in the University of Helsinki found that the partial replacement of red and processed meat with food based on pea and fava beans ensures adequate intake of amino acids in the diet and has no detrimental effects on bone metabolism.
Suvi Itkonen from the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry of the Finnish University said, “Decreasing the consumption of red and processed meat in the diet to the upper limit of the Planetary Health Diet while increasing the consumption of legumes cultivated in Finland, such as peas and faba beans, is safe from the perspective of protein nutrition. Similarly, bone health is not compromised by such a dietary change either.”
