What are the four most important reasons to eat veggie more often?

Do you also regularly choose a veggie meal? Or shouldn’t you think about putting a meat substitute on the table? A recent study revealed the 4 most important reasons why people opt for a vegetarian meal.

The 4 main reasons for choosing a vegetarian meal

1. Variation in meals (43%) 2. Contribution to the environment (including oceans) (40%) 3. Animal welfare (38%) 4. Health (34%)

How much do you know about veggie and meat substitutes?

Test your knowledge with this online test and see how much you know of the veggie eating habits of the Belgians and the Dutch.

Did you get six or more of the eight answers right? You’re right on par with Belgian and Dutch vegetarian eating habits!

0%
0 votes, 0 avg
0

Test your knowledge about veggie and meat substitutes.

Will meat eaters eat less meat in the future?
In other words, will there be more veggie on the carnivore menu soon?

Who eats the most meat?

What are the 5 main reasons why people don't want to eat a vegetarian alternative to meat?

Who is more quickly persuaded to eat veggie food?

How many times a week does an average Dutch or Belgian eat vegetarian?

What are the 4 most important reasons to eat more veggie?

What percentage of respondents think we will eat more fish and meat substitutes in the future?

What percentage of meat eaters would eat meat substitutes more often if they were healthier than a piece of meat or fish?

Your score is

Animal welfare and nature as the main reasons for going veggie

If one compares women and men, 48% versus 22% say that contributing to animal welfare and better nature and the environment (45% vs. 31%) is a reason to eat veggie more often or to stop eating meat and fish altogether.

Women also indicate more often, 10% compared to 3% of men questioned, that not liking meat/chicken/fish is a good reason to eat vegetarian food.

Want to eat vegetarian more often?

In our recipe database you will find a lot of inspiration to quickly and easily conjure up the tastiest vegetarian and vegan dishes.

Videos

The possibilities with the Instant Protein Vegan Mix - 3x 90 grams of Bertyn Seitanburger are (almost) endless! Watch all the videos of our recipes with this protein mix and get inspired to make vegetarian (or vegan) high-protein dishes for you and the whole family!

View all videos

Inspiration for cooking with seitan of Bertyn

Organic seitan from Bertyn is easy to use in vegetarian dishes. In classic dishes you can use seitan as a meat substitute. A meat substitute without cholesterol, with more protein than meat or fish and low in fat. Ideal on your veggie day. On this website you will find a lot of recipes for seitan.

view our recipes

Seitan recipe suggestions

Vegetarian gyros of seitan with rosemary and parsley

Vegetarian seitan gyros with rosemary and parsley

Recipe suitable for: 4 people | Difficulty: Average | Preparation time: 15 minutes | Preparation time: 10 minutes | Total preparation: 25 minutes |Type: Main dish, Meat substitute

View recipe
Spicy Seitan vegetarian meatloaf with thyme and oregano

Italian meat loaf with thyme and oregano

Recipe suitable for: 8 people | Difficulty: Difficult | Preparation time: 10 minutes | Preparation time: 15 minutes | waiting time: 90 minutes | Total preparation: 115 minutes |

View recipe
Recipe for a vegetarian Greek moussaka with vegetarian minced meat

Greek moussaka using vegetarian seitan mince

Recipe suitable for: 4 people | Difficulty: Average | Preparation time: 40 minutes | Preparation time: 60 minutes | Total preparation: 100 minutes |Type: Main dish, Tapas & snacks, Meat substitute

View recipe

Subscribe to our newsletter!

This way you will be the first to know about our promotions, new products and bio tips

The information that you leave here will only be used by us to keep you informed by e-mail, in the form of a newsletter, of developments at Bertyn and our current promotions. Bertyn considers your privacy and safety important. For our complete privacy policy we refer you to our privacy policy. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By clicking on the yes, I wish to receive the newsletters from Bertyn above, you agree to the processing of your data via Mailchimp. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here.

What fans say about Bertyn

6outta7

Vegan food blogger

“Seitan is great, I love it. Seitan (pronounced say-tan) is one of the most versatile faux-meat products you’ll ever experience.”

“How seitan tastes depends entirely upon how you flavor it: it’s essentially a sponge for flavor.”