The Role of Plant-Based Beverages in Nutrition: An Expert Opinion

作者：Joanna Rachtan‐Janicka, Danuta Gajewska, Hania Szajewska, Dariusz Włodarek, Halina Weker, Katarzyna Wolnicka, Klaudia Wiśniewska, Piotr Socha, Jadwiga Hamułka · 发表于：Nutrients · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.3390/nu17091562 · 被引用次数：23 · 研究领域：Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact、Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations、Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

The market of plant-based food, including plant-based beverages, is one of the fastest-growing food sectors within the food industry and a subject of major research in the area of new product development. Plant-based beverages are a diverse group of non-dairy beverages with varying nutritional value, depending on the raw material sources and additional substances used in their production. A wide range of plant beverages makes it possible to choose products tailored to individual consumer preferences and needs as a part of sustainable dietary patterns. Increased consumer awareness of the environmental and health implications of proper nutrition, interest in plant-based diets, climate, and natural resource protection, as well as ethical concerns about animal welfare and the negative environmental impact of animal production, have led some consumers to seek a more balanced diet based on varied plant-based products, including beverages. Considering the highly diversified nutritional value of plant-based beverages, their availability, convenience, accessibility to consumers, ethical and environmental concerns, increasing health concerns as well as growing popularity of plant-based beverages as potential cow-milk alternatives, the Group of Experts in medicine and nutritional sciences presents the opinion on the nutritional value, health benefits and concerns of the available plant-based beverages. The opinion was based on a critical review of the current scientific literature, as w...