The EXPLAIN Study: Exploring Plant-Based Meat Analogues for Their Impact on Health

Fully controlled standardized diet with commercially available meats from animal origin. Fully controlled means that all food products 8-week intervention will be provided by the HNRU at Wageningen University. The standardized diet is designed to maintain body weight, and follows the average nutritional pattern of middle-aged men and women in the Netherlands, while taking individual habitual energy intake into account. The diet will have the same dietary composition for each person and energy intake will be based on the energy requirements of an individual. The diet is the same for both intervention periods, except for the origin of meat products: PBMAs versus meat of animal origin.

Fully controlled standardized diet with commercially available Plant-Based Meat Analogues (PBMAs). Fully controlled means that all food products 8-week intervention will be provided by the HNRU at Wageningen University. The standardized diet is designed to maintain body weight, and follows the average nutritional pattern of middle-aged men and women in the Netherlands, while taking individual habitual energy intake into account. The diet will have the same dietary composition for each person and energy intake will be based on the energy requirements of an individual. The diet is the same for both intervention periods, except for the origin of meat products: PBMAs versus meat of animal origin.