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Burger King is Testing a Vegetarian Whopper Made With Impossible Burger (cnbc.com)
Burger King is testing a vegetarian version of its Whopper that uses an Impossible Burger for its patties, becoming the first national fast-food chain to sell the plant-based burger. From a report: The Restaurant Brands International subsidiary is offering the Impossible Whopper at 59 St. Louis locations. The chain already sells veggie patties made by Kellogg's vegetarian brand, Morningstar Farms. To announce the launch, Burger King released a video on April Fools' Day that shows unsuspecting Whopper fans eating the version with the Impossible Burger and then exclaiming that they can't taste the difference. Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods genetically engineers heme, a protein that makes the vegetarian-friendly burger taste like meat. The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef.
In other news Wendy's is relaunching it's "Where's the beef?" campaign.
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I tried it and found it 90% as good as a real hamburger and would definitely eat it again. I hope they make it available in the supermarket sooner than later.
The ingredient is also responsible for giving the patty red juices that make it look like it's bleeding, just like a piece of beef.
You can eat steak rare, but you should never eat ground beef rare: It's not at all safe, when you grind meat, exterior parts of meat covered in bacteria get pushed to the inside and cooking rare doesn't kill them off. If anyone sold bleeding hamburgers that were real meat- I would worry.
Please, feel free to eat your steaks rare as that's enough to kill off the bacteria on the surface... just don't eat burgers rare.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
When I worked at a hotel, occasionally a convention group would order veggie burgers but leave enough leftovers that the staff were allowed to eat them. These were better than the mass-produced fast food beef hamburgers I've eaten. They were so good I actually went online to track down a retail seller of the veggie patties so I could eat them at home. That's when I discovered from the nutrition label that they got the taste by loading it up with as much saturated fat as a ground beef burger. So basically it wasn't any healthier for you than a beef burger, it was just made from plants to assuage the guilt of vegetarians. (This isn't the same veggie patty, but you can see what I mean about the saturated fat content.)