{"id":188211,"date":"2025-12-17T12:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188211\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:25:06","slug":"ultra-processed-foods-are-under-fire-but-plant-based-isnt-the-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188211\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Processed Foods Are Under Fire But Plant-Based Isn\u2019t the Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy has spent centuries defending how food should be made and now it\u2019s quietly experimenting with how food might be printed. In Abruzzo, researchers at ENEA\u2019s EltHub are using 3D printing and lab-grown plant cells to create edible \u201cinks\u201d shaped into sliced foods and steak-like cuts. This isn\u2019t novelty gastronomy, it\u2019s applied food engineering, designed around texture, nutrition, and accessibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy has spent centuries defending how food should be made and now it\u2019s quietly experimenting with how food&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-188211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nutrition","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}