plant-based meat alternative (PBMA)

Indications

• PBMAs are highly processed food products marketed to replace meat in the diet

Clinical significance

• some trials replacing meat with PBMAs note improvements in cardiovascular risk factors
  • total cholesterol in serum
  • serum LDL cholesterol
  • serum apolipoprotein B-100
  • body mass index

More general terms

• processed food; ultraprocessed food

Additional terms

• plant-based diet