<story><title>The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-14/the-mighty-pea-is-everybody-s-new-favorite-plant-based-protein</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>LordHeini</author><text>Is it only me or is this whole preprocessed food stuff the most American thing ever?&lt;p&gt;Why has everything to be some powder in a bucket or some goop in a tube?&lt;p&gt;It is so strange that people replace animal products with chemistry.&lt;p&gt;I can understand not to eat animal based products on moral or environmental grounds but replacing those with Monsanto soy and chemistry does not strike me as the proper way to do it.&lt;p&gt;Do you think the bucketized bean protein powder extracted from peas might be bad for you? Well eat the freaking peas I bet those taste better as well.</text></comment>
<story><title>The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-14/the-mighty-pea-is-everybody-s-new-favorite-plant-based-protein</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lemming</author><text>My family has been trialling various alternative meats recently, and one we liked was the Sunfed chicken-free chicken, made here in NZ. Pea protein is the main ingredient. Their advertising claims that people can&amp;#x27;t tell the difference between it and real chicken, which I find hard to believe, but it&amp;#x27;s not bad and it basically serves an equivalent function to chicken for me - it soaks up whatever tasty thing I&amp;#x27;m covering it with and gives me a bunch of protein (much more than real chicken, actually). It&amp;#x27;s not like actual chicken is really super tasty unless you smother it in something yummy.</text></comment>