How so-called healthy veggie meals from leading brands like Bird’s Eye are even WORSE for you than meat equivalents

TELL a vegan your sausage is healthier than theirs, and they will think you’re banger out of order.

But many plant-based meat alternatives are ultra-processed with “no clear” heart benefits.

People who ate fake sausages, burgers and mince seemingly had worse blood pressure than those who eat the real thing, claimed a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

This week actor Martin Freeman, 52, revealed he had turned his back on vegetarianism after nearly four decades due to meat mock-ups being “very, very processed”.

Here Josh Saunders compares the nutritional values of 100g of real meat with the fakes.

STEAK STRIPS

PLANT-BASED Squeaky Bean’s offering has nearly double the fat and salt content.

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CHICKEN BREAST

THIS Isn’t Chicken has three times more fat and Future Farm’s has ten times more salt.

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BEEF MINCE

LOW-FAT mince can have three times less fat and up to six-and-a-half times less salt.

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BACON RASHERS

BACON butty lovers fear not, your crispy rashers have three times less fat than La Vie’s plant-based phony.

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BEEF BURGERS

PUT that juicy burger on the BBQ guilt-free because Moving Mountains burgers have three times the fat content.

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CHICKEN DIPPERS

A KIDS’ favourite, the humble chicken dipper is still slightly healthier than its meatless alternative.

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