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The Impossible Burger 2.0 Is a Plant-Based Beef Replacement That Uses Soy Instead Wheat Protein To Take On New Forms (popsci.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: During a press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Impossible Foods showed off its new plant-based ground beef replacement by offering a selection of foods from traditional sliders to the ambitious tartare. Thanks to a change in formula, the new Impossible Burger 2.0 goes beyond simple patties and aims to take on ground beef with every recipe, from lasagna to tacos. The first tastes are very promising. Back in 2016, the original Impossible Burger debuted as a veggie burger that could almost pass as beef. Its meaty secret was a molecule called heme, which contains iron and is largely responsible for the flavors we associate with cooked flesh. But, according to Impossible CEO Pat Brown, it requires a protein to bind it. The original Impossible Burger used wheat protein, which worked, but had some drawbacks. First, it meant the Impossible Burger wasn't gluten-free, but it also put some limitations on the meat's form factor. The wheat worked for burger patties that stayed in a relatively static shape, but it couldn't crumble or take on other shapes -- like meatballs -- without losing its integrity. The solution was a switch to soy.
The resulting Impossible Burger 2.0 product has 14 grams of fat and 240 calories in a single quarter-pound serving (whether it's a patty, ball, or glob of tartare). Impossible also claims that the Burger 2.0 has the same amount of bioavailable iron and protein as its cow-derived cousin. According to Brown, the levels of amino acids are "at least on-par" with typical ground beef and, in some cases, exceed what real meat can offer. As for taste, Popular Science's Stan Horaczek says "it works best as a burger with a thin patty so you don't get a whole mouthful of soy at once, but once you introduce a bun and some toppings, you might not even notice the differences with real beef."
The Impossible Burger 2.0 will be served at a few restaurants starting this week, with a wider roll out starting on February 8 when it will be available to all U.S. restaurants through food distributors. It's also planning to have its products in some U.S. supermarkets by later this year.
The resulting Impossible Burger 2.0 product has 14 grams of fat and 240 calories in a single quarter-pound serving (whether it's a patty, ball, or glob of tartare). Impossible also claims that the Burger 2.0 has the same amount of bioavailable iron and protein as its cow-derived cousin. According to Brown, the levels of amino acids are "at least on-par" with typical ground beef and, in some cases, exceed what real meat can offer. As for taste, Popular Science's Stan Horaczek says "it works best as a burger with a thin patty so you don't get a whole mouthful of soy at once, but once you introduce a bun and some toppings, you might not even notice the differences with real beef."
The Impossible Burger 2.0 will be served at a few restaurants starting this week, with a wider roll out starting on February 8 when it will be available to all U.S. restaurants through food distributors. It's also planning to have its products in some U.S. supermarkets by later this year.
Truth be told, real burgers don't help much with the bitch tits either.
Unless it's substantially cheaper than beef
Surprise, beef is substantially subsidized by the US government. If you removed the subsidies then we would all save a lot of money, beef would be for the rich and we could have nice things like health care.
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Unless it's substantially cheaper than beef
Surprise, beef is substantially subsidized by the US government. If you removed the subsidies then we would all save a lot of money, beef would be for the rich and we could have nice things like health care.
Yeah, unlike soy or corn. /s
Soybean Subsidies in the United States totaled $37.4 billion from 1995-2017
Corn Subsidies in the United States totaled $111.2 billion from 1995-2017.
Livestock Subsidies in the United States totaled $10.8 billion from 1995-2017.
Soybean Subsidies in the United States totaled $37.4 billion from 1995-2017
Corn Subsidies in the United States totaled $111.2 billion from 1995-2017.
Fun fact, guess what they feed lots of livestock? CORN! Most corn and soy goes into processed junk food. A lot of corn isn't for human consumption because it's explicitly for producing High Fructose Corn Syrup. So yeah, we shouldn't subsidize corn either (or at least not blindly)!
Livestock Subsidies in the United States totaled $10.8 billion from 1995-2017.
You have failed to include that grazing on federal land is $1/acre instead of the market price of about $20/acre.
There are a LOT of hidden subsidies with the livestock industry.
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See here
A few points for the TL;DR; crowd:
1. The claim soy turns you into a girl is based on a 1940s era study into sheep eating clover.
2. Estrogens are a _class_ of chemicals and plant estrogens behave very differently than the female sex hormone.
3. Alex Jones' supplements are chock full of soy (it's a cheap filler).
Feel free to watch the rest of the video above.
I'm not necessarily interested in defending soy, but I'm since and tired of junk science.
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I've had one. The worst part was the fake cheese. Put some good cheddar on it, and it wouldn't be the best burger I've ever had, but it would be far from the worst. As it was, with the obviously fake cheese, I'd put it in the bottom 1/3 of burgers I've had. If it had good cheese on it, it would be in the top 50%.
For someone with a smoker who smoked 15lbs of brisket for christmas dinner, giving a vegetarian burger a top 50% slot in my life-long burger eating surprised the hell out of me. It was actually really, really tasty. Definitely above fast-food burgers. That tells me that the fast food joints could probably adopt it and nobody would be the wiser. I've definitely had far more disappointing burgers at fast food joints.
Your typical gastropub burger? This one gets close but probably won't pass it. Anything gourmet? Probably not.
But it could replace the average fast food burger, and that's a big deal. The question is if they can be cheaper than a fast food burger. At the moment, the answer is no. However, all it will take is one of them to jump in on this, and they might be able to do it.
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I concur. The two I've had were in the $10-$15 range for just a burger. (The $15 One was in CA, so knock off like $5 for the rest of the country.) Too expensive to replace fast food burgers, but I did think it was tastier than any fast food burger I'd ever had. There's a revolution there, for sure. All it's going to take is one major chain to roll it out, and then it's going to be cheaper and better than the average fast food burger. And healthier.
As someone who loves to cook, and who's killed, dressed, and cooked my own meat, I was not expecting to really like that burger. But I liked it. A lot. I just needed non-fake cheese on it, because fake cheese is unforgivable.
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In Australia we manage to eat grass-fed beef. We don't need to subsidise corn and we get along fine. US agricultural subsidies just make the industry horribly inefficient and wasteful.
This myth comes from a study done in the 30s on sheep. From there it turned into the great Soyboy panic of 2018.
Basically it's nonsense, the stuff in soy has no effect on human males manliness or testosterone levels or man-boobs.
This video explains it in detail, with references for everything: https://youtu.be/C8dfiDeJeDU
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If you developed man boobs within a week you should get that checked out by a doctor. Seriously, normally men don't develop man boobs in a week from eating a heavy soy diet. Something else is going on.
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