Trending Nutrition Controversies #3: Top Controversies in 2021.

Abstract Each year, patients are bombarded with diverging and even contradictory reports concerning the impact of certain additives, foods, and nutrients on cardiovascular health and its risk factors. Accordingly, this third nutrition controversies review examines the impact of artificial sweeteners, cacao, soy, plant-based meats, nitrates, and meats from grass versus grain-fed animals on cardiovascular and other health outcomes with the goal of optimizing clinician-led diet counseling.