> A 2021 French study found that ultra-processed ... accounted for 37% and 39.5% of energy intake for vegetarians and vegans ... 33% figure for meat eaters [1].
The data suggests that in whatever population the study sampled from all types of food eaters are eating roughly the same amount of ultra-processed food.
That said, I agree with you that the numbers are too high. I eat meat, cook my own food, and I am pretty sure my percentage is less than 10%.
More seriously, if they follow a nearly vegan diet for ethical reasons, except they don't give a shit about bees, it makes sense to describe their choice as approximately vegan, rather than plant based, because it is approximately vegan.
Also, per serving: lentils (?g), peas (5g), peanut butter (8g), flax meal (3g), hemp hearts (10g); and more I’m sure I’m missing.
That said, I could easily eat 3 cups of beans per day.
As to “complete proteins” mixing quinoa and oats, which each have some of the necessary amino acids, makes their combination a source for complete proteins.
I can't speak for them, but adding a scoop or two of pea or brown rice protein makes it very easy to achieve any target amount of daily protein while getting a good amino ratio.
> All the things in your diet are listed as "examples of not complete proteins" on that page. not quite sure what that means.
Complete proteins contain all nine essential amino acids in consistent amounts. Most of those are stuff like fish, poultry and dairy, whereas grains or vegetables usually don't contain all the needed amino acids.
So if you're on a veg diet, mixing and matching those protein sources is recommended to get you all the amino acids your body needs.
Ultra processed food eaters have an ultra processed food problem.
I eat a ~vegan diet. (~vegan meaning someone a vegan would refuse to call a vegan, but that anyone else would call a vegan, ie. I eat honey)
I cook all of my food, and it’s all fresh produce, spices, evoo, quinoa, and oats.