Vegan breakfast
Why eat a vegan breakfast? More people are switching to plant-based meals. It is important to help make this process easy, comfortable and delicious. At Breakfast Cure we are also fully committed to making breakfasts that feel like a hug, warm and comforting. Organic, gluten-free and plant-based ingredients make our job easier because whole, real food ingredients also taste the best.
Plant-based diets may include some foods from other sources. Making a vegan breakfast is one way to ensure that at least one meal a day is free of animal products and by-products like eggs and dairy. Some people choose a 100% vegan diet, and others fall somewhere on the omnivorous spectrum. Motivation to eat more plant-based foods is driven by a variety of personal values. Let’s take a look at some great reasons to eat more meals full of fruits, vegetables, grains, seeds, beans, legumes, herbs and spices.
Why is a plant-based vegan breakfast important?
personal health
The reasons for switching to a plant-based vegan breakfast are many and varied. Overall, though, choosing plant-based foods helps move us toward healthier bodies and a healthier planet. According to the MD Aderson Center, cancer research has shown five important benefits of a plant-based diet:
- Increases immunity
- Reduce inflammation
- Maintain a healthy weight
- Increases fiber (great for constipation and regular elimination, especially when eaten with plenty of water!)
- Reduce your risk of cancer
Moira Lawler also offers 9 scientific benefits of following a plant-based diet, medically reviewed by Kelly Kennedy, RDN:
- It can lower blood pressure
- healthy heart
- It can prevent type 2 diabetes
- It helps minimize the risk of stroke
- It can help you live longer
- brain health It can help prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia
- It can improve cholesterol
- Helps with weight loss
- It can reduce the risk of cancer
Planetary Health
According to Stanford University’s May 2021 Stanford Report, Adopt a plant-based diet, by Carol Hunter,
“Focusing on whole, plant-based foods can reduce body weight, blood pressure and risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes, and can make your environmental impact more sustainable. Dr Reshma Shah, instructor at Stanford Healthy Living, offers simple ways to incorporate more plants into your diet.”
Increasing vegan foods reduces our footprint on Earth.
Hunter explains, “The meat and dairy industries alone use a third of the Earth’s fresh water, with a quarter-pound hamburger requiring 460 gallons of water, the equivalent of nearly 30 showers, to produce
Reducing meat and dairy consumption, even just a little, can have big impacts. If everyone in America didn’t eat meat or cheese just one day a week, it would have the same environmental impact as taking 7.6 million cars off the road.”
Reducing animal cruelty is another major benefit of switching to plant-based foods for most meals.
Plant-based diets include all the nutrients you need and offer a good balance of both fiber and protein, while meat and dairy diets lack the adequate fiber to make up a complete, healthy diet.
The delicate nuances of flavor in a vegan breakfast
Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Cure is sweetened only with whole apples, but the sweetness is simply satisfying. That’s why we think you’ll find that the more you eat foods that contain delicious ingredients grown with love and care for people and our planet, the more you’ll begin to taste the delicate nuances of flavor. The results of a vegan diet can be the discovery of wonderful flavors in a simple apple or a whole grain of oats cooked to perfection.
Water is the key
The benefits of more fiber are only realized when consumed with enough water because too much fiber without enough fluids can create severe constipation. However, whole grains, when cooked with six times their volume of water, deliver soft, moist, soothing fiber as it passes through the intestines, providing a gentle cleanse that helps optimize and regulate elimination. Learn more about our story and how the benefits of this combination of whole grain fiber with plenty of water inspired the creation of the Breakfast Cure.
If you’re looking for a really easy way to eat a vegan breakfast, try our Vegan Breakfast Sampler and start with one of our famous vegan flavors.