Clip: Season 8 Episode 6 | 50s | Video has closed captioning.
Fruits and vegetables? Yes. Plant-based foods? Maybe. Kelli Fernholz, a preschool teacher in Madison, WI who talks about nutrition in her class, shares why she prefers the former and not the latter. Even with all of the alt-meat choices available on grocery store shelves, the switch to a plant-based diet for most people isn't quite as easy a decision.
Aired: 03/25/24
- Amanda: Kelli Fernholz is the of this preschool class in Madison, a town next to Dawson, that Amber occasionally comes to Kelli: Like, fruits and vegetab have always come naturally, but the plant-based protein is the harder part.
- Traditionally, plant-based has meant foods like vegetables, beans, and tofu but now companies in this plant-based space, like PURIS, are hoping the term makes consumers think of things like pea-protein sausage and soy-protein chicken, something that people with busy lifestyles, like Kelli.
can just throw in the microwave.
But Kelli isn't so sure about some of these new alt-meat optio - I just would rather just go with, like, a real food, like, I'm just going to eat the salad, real food.
