Why are phytochemicals found in veggie burgers important?
Unrefined plant foods are loaded with a variety of natural food substances such as phytochemicals that have been proven to reduce the risk of both cancer and heart disease. A tomato, for example, has over ten thousand such ingredients. It would be impossible to capture the totality and synergistic effects of these substances that are only now being studied in detail, in a pill. Veggie burgers are loaded with all the natural substances found in the vegetables, legumes, grains and spices.