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Vegetarian Guide - Meat Substitutes
When the pangs of hunger strike you, you will generally start looking for delicious food to start satisfying these hunger pangs. To satisfy this need you have a range of different foods that you can try. These will include fruits, fast foods, cereals, meats, vegetables and meat substitutes.Before you start wondering what the term meat substitutes mean we shall try to explain this in a few simple words. Meat substitutes are vegetable and sometimes grains which are made to look and taste like various types of meats. The most commonly known meat substitutes are soy meat and tofu.
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In North America, fructose is predominately made from genetically modified corn.
These sweeteners include glucose-fructose, corn syrup, corn dextrin, dextrose and corn maltodextrin.
Many brands of veggie dogs and veggie burgers contain dextrose (corn syrup).

"Fructose does not stimulate insulin secretion."

(Excerpt published May, 05 in Diabetes Health from an article written by Christopher Mohr, MS. RD. LDN.)