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>It has as much bioavailable iron and protein as the same size serving of ground beef Which ofc it's nothing but marketing nonsense considering that the most b
by DDebbieDDowner 8y ago
>It has as much bioavailable iron and protein as the same size serving of ground beef
Which ofc it's nothing but marketing nonsense considering that the most bioavailable form of iron Heme-iron is found only in meats.
- ufo 8y agoImpossible burger's recipe features large amounts of soy leghemoglobin, sourced from transgenic yeast.
- moate 8y ago"Most" doesn't mean "only". Non-heme iron is real, I promise. Hell they could really cheat and just throw ferrous sulfate directly in the mix rather than using naturally occurring iron in the veggies.
- DDebbieDDowner 8y ago"Most" doesn't mean "only". Non-heme iron is real, I promise. No, it means that the Non-heme is less bioavailable i.e less efficiently absorbed from the body.
- moate 8y agoIf I give you 100G of iron at 10% bioavailabilty , and Tom 10G at 100% absorption, who absorbed more iron? If you insist on reading the statement as "this burger has non-heme iron at quantities comparable to heme iron in meat that will also be just as bio-available" then yes, it's impossible. However, I was trying to point out that there are several ways of reading that statement without it being marketing doublespeak. TL;dr- I think we're arguing different points here.