{"id":27298,"date":"2026-09-09T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=27298"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:32:16","slug":"scientific-update-how-can-over-purchasing-and-food-waste-be-reduced-as-well-as-substituting-canned-beans-for-other-protein-foods-improves-diet-quality-in-u-s-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/09\/scientific-update-how-can-over-purchasing-and-food-waste-be-reduced-as-well-as-substituting-canned-beans-for-other-protein-foods-improves-diet-quality-in-u-s-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Update: How Can Over-Purchasing and Food Waste Be Reduced as well as Substituting Canned Beans for Other \u201cProtein Foods\u201d Improves Diet Quality in U.S. Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vrglogogreensmallest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vrglogogreensmallest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> includes a review of recent scientific papers related to vegetarianism. In the latest issue read: How Can Over-Purchasing and Food Waste Be Reduced: and Substituting Canned Beans for Other \u201cProtein Foods\u201d Improves Diet Quality in U.S. Adults. The column is written by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, and can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue3\/2026_issue3_scientific_update.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue3\/2026_issue3_scientific_update.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each issue of Vegan Journal includes a review of recent scientific papers related to vegetarianism. In the latest issue read: How Can Over-Purchasing and Food Waste Be Reduced: and Substituting Canned Beans for Other \u201cProtein Foods\u201d Improves Diet Quality in U.S. Adults. The column is written by Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, and can be found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27300,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27298\/revisions\/27300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}