Oatly posted $240.1 million in Q2 revenue, up 15.2% year over year, and raised its full-year growth guidance again on Barista oat milk demand [67].
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A fully controlled crossover trial found a whole-food plant-based diet cut LDL cholesterol 17.9% more than a standard American diet in adults with a genetic high-cholesterol disorder [5].
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The largest meta-analysis of its kind found vegetarians carry 13% lower total cancer risk and vegans 23% lower, against non-vegetarians [10].
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A real-world Penn State trial found a daily avocado modestly cut LDL particle counts in adults with obesity, an estimated 4% drop in heart disease risk [22][25].
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Confidence in US food-safety oversight hit record lows across three trackers as a Cyclospora outbreak topped 20,000 cases, and 40% of Americans said they're eating less produce [66].
$240.1 millionOatly's Q2 2026 revenue, up 15.2% year over year [67]
21%growth in Europe and international revenue, to $143.1 million, driven mainly by Barista product volume [67]
+8% to +10%Oatly's new full-year revenue growth guidance, raised from a prior +3% to +5% [67]
Company claim"switching to 100 percent British oats could reduce the climate footprint of its Barista range by up to 13 percent by the end of 2026" (Oatly) [67]. This is the company's own unaudited projection, not an independently verified measurement.
Plant-based diet cuts LDL 17.9% in genetic high-cholesterol trial
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By the numbers
-17.9%LDL cholesterol on the whole-food plant-based diet versus a standard American diet (95% CI -21.7% to -14.3%, P < 0.0001) [5][32]
50adults with genetically confirmed familial hypercholesterolemia completed the four-week, crossover, fully controlled feeding trial [5][32]
Solid"The WFPB induced a clinically significant reduction in LDL-C relative to the SAD" (study authors, Nature Communications) [5][32]. A randomized, controlled crossover feeding trial, but only 50 participants and four-week arms in a genetic-disease population, so durability outside the feeding lab is untested.
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Vegetarian diets cut cancer risk 13%, vegan diets cut it 23%
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By the numbers
13% lowertotal cancer risk in vegetarians versus non-vegetarians (RR 0.87, 95% CI 0.84-0.91, 4 studies) [10]
23% lowertotal cancer risk in vegans versus non-vegetarians (RR 0.77, 95% CI 0.70-0.85, 3 studies) [10]
45% lowerstomach cancer risk in vegetarians versus non-vegetarians (RR 0.55, 95% CI 0.36-0.86) [10]
Solid"Vegetarian diets compared to non-vegetarian diets are associated with reduced risk of total cancer and seven specific cancer types" (study authors, European Journal of Epidemiology) [10]. Pooled from prospective cohort studies; the authors themselves rate the strength of evidence "probable," not proven, since observational data can't establish causation.
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“If people want to improve the quality of their diet, making one small change might be a more feasible strategy than attempting to change their entire diet.”
Janhavi Damani, Penn State postdoctoral scholar and the study's first author · [22]
By the numbers
-49.1 nmol/LLDL particle concentration change among adults eating an avocado daily for 26 weeks, versus habitual diet (95% CI -83.6 to -14.5) [25]
786adults with abdominal obesity enrolled in the Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial [22][25]
Solid"an estimated 4% reduction in heart disease risk" (Penn State researchers) [22]. The peer-reviewed trial measured a real drop in LDL particle count; the 4% figure is a modeled estimate from that biomarker change, not a directly observed drop in heart attacks or strokes.
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Worth Knowing
Food & Recipes
Try this: canned white beans blend into these vegan chocolate chip blondies for a fudgy dessert with extra protein and fiber [57].
Research & Nutrition
A meta-analysis of 17 studies covering 456,783 adults found plant-based diets linked to 18% lower odds of hypertension [9].
Plant-based diets lowered C-reactive protein by 1.13 mg/L compared with omnivorous diets across seven controlled trials, though the researchers rated the certainty low [11].
A six-day crossover trial found swapping red meat for plant-based meat lowered TMAO, a heart-disease marker, but also nudged body weight and a cardiac stress marker up slightly [12].
Recreational runners and lifters at four universities showed no significant performance difference after four weeks on a plant-based diet [16].
A four-month, 82-microgram daily multinutrient supplement corrected vitamin B12 biomarkers in healthy vegans, with vitamin A, K and folate levels unchanged either way [20].
A 12-week trial combining a high-protein, partly plant-based diet with fiber supplementation improved psychomotor speed and memory and reduced hunger, though the fiber itself didn't change brain activity toward food cues [7].
Cognitive-impairment and dementia risk fell with diets rich in healthful plant foods and rose with diets heavy on refined plant foods, across pooled cohort meta-analyses [15][18].
Activism & Animals
Animal Ethics published a new report arguing aquatic animals show clear evidence of suffering and enjoyment despite receiving far less research attention than land animals [64].
Innovation
Ag-biotech firm Micropep filed for US and EU approval of a peptide-based biofungicide engineered to be hard for fungi to evolve resistance against [62].
A review of cultivated-meat patent strategy found companies increasingly balancing IP protection with knowledge-sharing, including a strategy of openly sharing close failures with rivals [63].
One Good Thing
A UK study tried something almost too simple to count as an intervention: stop pairing "Falafel Burger" next to "Beef Burger" on a menu, and put it beside something like "Chicken Pie" instead. Nothing else changed, but meat eaters chose the plant-based option far more often, from 21% up to 30% when two mains were on offer, and from 37% up to 45% with three [13]. No lecture, no substitute-guilt, just a menu that stopped inviting the comparison. Sometimes moving veganism forward looks less like a debate and more like better writing on a chalkboard.
