SWITCHING to meatless diets can help slash food costs by up to a third, a recently published Oxford University study has revealed.
The research claims it is more affordable to adopt a vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian diet in countries such as the US, UK, Australia, and parts of Western Europe.
Specifically, vegan diets came out on top as the cheapest with vegetarians in at second.
Oxford University plant-based study
In The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modeling study, researchers compared seven “sustainable” diets to the typical diets in 150 countries.
The aim was to assess which diets dubbed to be better for the planet are realistic for widespread adoption in terms of cost.
While the importance of dietary changes to healthy eating is becoming more widely understood, less is known about the “economic dimensions” of such changes, the study reads.
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