Meat or plant-based? These SA twins joined a Netflix series to test which is better for the body

Their passion for food saw them bringing bunny chow and frikkadels to the streets of San Francisco. It also got them onto two popular cooking shows in the States. But it’s the fact that they’re identical twins that got Pam and Wendy Drew onto the Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment.

The four-part docuseries compares the health benefits of a plant-based diet versus one that includes meat, eggs and dairy, and is based on an eight-week study of 22 sets of identical twins conducted by Stanford University.

The show follows eight of the 44 twins, who were invited to take part because they’re genetically identical. For eight weeks one twin sibling was assigned a vegan diet while the other was assigned a healthy, balanced omnivore diet – the idea being that the effects of these could then be monitored in gene­tically identical individuals.