Characterizing meat alternatives as "ultra processed" has been a propaganda coup for the meat industry, allowing for an equivocation between categorically different nutritional profiles of products like Twinkies and Pringles on the one hand, and meat alternative products which have absolutely nothing to do with refined starches, sugars, or trans fats on the other and which in fact have better cardiovascular outcomes, cancer outcomes and environmental impacts than the meats they are replacing.
They're both ultra processed in the same way that a jellyfish and a California Redwood are both carbon based life forms.
They're both ultra processed in the same way that a jellyfish and a California Redwood are both carbon based life forms.