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Originally Posted by Acepimp
The fake burger is made from GMO soybeans.
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No, its made from wheat protein, coconut oil, potato protein, and heme.
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https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/sec...ossible-burger
According to the Impossible Foods website, the Impossible Burger is made from ingredients including wheat protein, coconut oil, potato protein, and heme. And that last one — heme — is the secret ingredient that makes the Impossible Burger taste so much like meat.
Red meat gets its color and unique texture from the same heme compound — though Impossible Foods gets its heme from entirely plant-based sources. Heme contains iron, giving meat that distinctive, iron-like taste. It's found in animal blood and muscle — which make up a good portion of the cuts used in ground beef. The heme in muscle is a part of myoglobin (which makes up the "blood" you think is coming from your juicy burger or steak) while the heme in blood exists in hemoglobin. Impossible Foods discovered that a certain plant compound contains heme, as well — leghemoglobin.
They learned to extract heme from plants and produce more of it using fermentation. While they could have extracted the heme directly from plants, using this fermentation process instead saves water and farmland. It also produces just an eighth of the greenhouse gases that would otherwise be required.
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Originally Posted by Acepimp
Likely sprayed with toxic herbicides. We can still get free-range organic chicken and turkey, grass-fed beef, or better yet, deer meat
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Well, maybe... we will have to wait and see on that. But real meat has its own problems too. It's expensive to produce, livestock causes lots of greenhouse gasses, and water near farms is polluted beyond belief, and of course its cruel.
I have eaten veggie burgers and I am not a fan at all. Meat is delicious. But hey, if this new burger is safe and delicious and nutritious and saves some animals and is better for the planet, then damn right I'll eat them. Its worth a try at least, isn't it? I know holding on to old things and old traditions and old ways are comforting, but if they are bad, they are bad.
Now: Today for lunch I'm going to hop in to my electric car and go buy an impossible burger and smoke week and dance on the mountain before I jerk it to Hillary.