Aging changes the body’s relationship with food in ways that are easy to underestimate. Appetite tends to shrink, absorption of certain nutrients becomes less efficient, and the consequences of small nutritional gaps become more visible over time, whether that shows up as fatigue, weakened bones, or muscle loss. For older vegans, none of this means […]
Feeding Vegan Kids: A Practical Nutrition Guide for 2026
Raising a vegan kid is more mainstream in 2026 than it was even five years ago, with more fortified products, more school cafeteria options, and considerably more research behind the practice. Growing bodies have different needs than adult ones though, with higher requirements relative to body size for several nutrients, and small stomachs that cannot […]
Vegan Pregnancy in 2026: Nutrients Worth Tracking Closely
A well planned vegan diet can support a healthy pregnancy, but “well planned” is doing real work in that sentence. Pregnancy increases the body’s needs for several specific nutrients at exactly the time when nausea, food aversions, and sheer exhaustion can make careful eating harder than usual. Knowing which nutrients deserve the closest attention makes […]
Cardiologists and Plant Based Diets: Why More Are Recommending It
It used to be unusual for a cardiologist to bring up a plant based diet during a routine appointment. In 2026, it is increasingly common, and the shift reflects a growing body of clinical evidence rather than a passing trend. Heart disease remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and the connection between […]
Vegan Diets and Diabetes: What the Latest Clinical Research Says
Type 2 diabetes affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and diet sits at the center of how it is managed. Over the past two decades, a growing body of clinical research has examined whether plant based, and specifically vegan, eating patterns can help with blood sugar control, weight management, and reducing reliance on medication. […]
Gut Microbiome Research and Plant Based Eating in 2026
Few areas of nutrition science have grown as quickly in the last decade as gut microbiome research, and 2026 finds the field in an interesting place: enthusiastic, still young, and increasingly focused on one recurring theme, the sheer diversity of plants in a person’s diet. For vegans, this line of research offers some genuinely encouraging […]
Plant Based Diets and Longevity: What Blue Zones Research Actually Shows
Every few months a headline resurfaces claiming that people in Okinawa or Sardinia have cracked the code to living past one hundred, and that the secret is beans, greens, and very little meat. The truth, as usual, is more interesting and more useful than the headline. Blue Zones research is real, it is observational, and […]
Tempeh, Seitan, and Jackfruit: A 2026 Guide to Whole Food Vegan Proteins
Amid all the attention on precision fermented proteins and extruded plant steaks this year, it is worth stepping back and appreciating the three whole food proteins that built vegan home cooking’s foundation long before any of that technology existed: tempeh, seitan, and jackfruit. Each works through a completely different mechanism, comes with its own nutritional […]
Vegan Chocolate in 2026: Bean to Bar Trends Worth Knowing
Dark chocolate has always had an easier relationship with vegan eating than milk chocolate, since good quality dark chocolate never contained dairy to begin with. What has changed in 2026 is the sheer sophistication of the bean to bar movement specifically serving vegan chocolate lovers, small producers controlling the entire process from sourcing raw cacao […]
Vegan Wine and Beer: What Fining Agents Have to Do With It
It surprises a lot of people to learn that a glass of wine, made from nothing but grapes, is not automatically vegan. The reason has nothing to do with the ingredients you would expect and everything to do with a step most drinkers never think about: fining, the clarification process that removes tiny suspended particles […]