{"id":9583,"date":"2022-10-17T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T05:46:58","slug":"mock-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mock-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mock&#8217; meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About &#8216;Mock&#8217; meat:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Plant-based meat &amp; dairy<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPlant-based\u201d refers to products that bio-mimic or replicate meat, seafood, eggs, and milk derived from animals \u2014 by looking, smelling, and tasting like them.<\/li>\n<li>Plant-based dairy products include ice-cream that isn\u2019t simply frozen dessert that replaces milk fat with vegetable oil.<\/li>\n<li>Even the proteins and other solids-not-fat ingredients are sourced from plants.<\/li>\n<li>As for plant-based dairy, the main products are milk from oats, almond, soyabean, coconut, and rice. Among these, oat milk is considered the closest to regular milk in taste and texture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>How are these made?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Animal meat contains protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, and water, just like plants.<\/li>\n<li>This biochemical similarity allows for finding analogues in the plant kingdom or making them through mechanical, chemical, or biological treatment of such ingredients.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge lies in replicating muscle tissue that plants don\u2019t have. The unique spatial arrangement of proteins in these tissues is what creates the distinct texture of animal meat.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s why plant-based mutton samosas, kebabs or keema, having a simpler texture, are easier to make than larger whole cuts of animal meat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-economics\/what-is-meat-from-plants-and-is-just-like-meat-vegetarian-8212789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlant-based\u201d refers to products that bio-mimic meat, seafood, eggs, and milk derived from animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}