There already plenty of questions about whether veganism is really health, including:

• What to do to ensure one gets enough vitamin B12 (eating marmite helps)?
• What should pregnant and nursing mothers do to get enough calcium?
• How can growing children get enough protein, calcium and fat?
• What adjustments should one make if one is very active, e.g. plays a lot of sports?
• How can older people (whose digestive systems tend to be less efficient) ensure enough nutrition?

There is a constant stream of cases hitting the news where at risk people like in the list above (especially children) end up being malnourished.

Now, to give people one more thing to worry about, there is this report on The Telegraph.

The food industry has responded to the demand for vegan food that looks, feels and tastes like meat by producing a range of ultra-highly processed (UHP) vegan food: companies like Impossible Food, Beyond Meat, etc. We ourselves occasionally use fake mince (called Muhlenhack in Germany).

It turns out that UHP vegan foods are not very healthy; the processing makes it hard for us to absorb the nutrients (this is actually true for non-vegan UHP foods too).

The answer, of course, is what our mothers and grandmothers always said: everything in moderation and nothing to excess; a balanced diet. It is not healthy to eat too much meat, but it is equally unhealthy to eat no meat at all.

Sheryl and I usually eat vegetarian (not usually vegan - we are way too addicted to cheese to be vegan) dinners about three days a week. When we severely cut down on meat, we both had problems of lack of energy, caused by lack of vitamin B12. We do sometimes buy UHP products (fake mince or Beyond Burgers about once per month), but we balance that with meat or fish on some days, raw vegetables and fresh ingredients in our cooking.