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I am excited about the work Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are doing in this space. Creating alternatives with same nutrient content and similar taste but 1/1

I am excited about the work Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are doing in this space. Creating alternatives with same nutrient content and similar taste but 1/10th the land usage and consuming less of other resources.

mklarmann 7y ago
Specifically - and this is much more important right now: 1/10 of GHGs compared to their meat counterparts.
elktea 7y ago
If they had the same nutrient content I would be excited as well. They merely look like a bit like meat. The similarities end there.
- delecti 7y ago
  Considering the links between meat consumption and heart disease, one would think that you should be more excited that the nutrient content isn't the same.
LegitShady 7y ago
beyond meat doesn't seem to be doing anything interesting aside from having a slightly better burger recipe than the last guy. As far as I can tell they've cashed in on the buzz generated by impossible foods, who genetically engineered yeast to produce a plant heme so their meatless meat products taste and cook more like meat. Beyond Meat just appears to have come to market first, and such gotten more attention. I've tried it a couple times, it was just ok, and not much better than most other decent veggie burger patties. Not groundbreaking and not worth more money than any others. I haven't tried impossible foods yet. Looking for them.
- delecti 7y ago
  Impossible burgers aren't available to consumers. IMO Beyond isn't quite as good, but I can get it at the grocery store, and it's still much closer to the real thing than any veggie burgers I've tried other than Impossible. Note that that's not necessarily better than other veggie burgers, just closer to beef. IMO Impossible is even still closer to beef, and also the best burger I've ever had.
  - LegitShady 7y ago
    Impossible burgers being slower to market did allow beyond meat to cash in, as I said,but impossible burger has an interesting product with the yeast sourced heme. As I said, beyond is just a veggie burger with a slightly better recipe than the last guy, cashing in on the buzz impossible created before they could come to market. And now wonder - impossible had a novel product. Beyond has a veggie burger.

mklarmann 7y ago

Specifically - and this is much more important right now: 1/10 of GHGs compared to their meat counterparts.

elktea 7y ago

If they had the same nutrient content I would be excited as well. They merely look like a bit like meat. The similarities end there.

delecti 7y ago
Considering the links between meat consumption and heart disease, one would think that you should be more excited that the nutrient content isn't the same.

LegitShady 7y ago

beyond meat doesn't seem to be doing anything interesting aside from having a slightly better burger recipe than the last guy. As far as I can tell they've cashed in on the buzz generated by impossible foods, who genetically engineered yeast to produce a plant heme so their meatless meat products taste and cook more like meat. Beyond Meat just appears to have come to market first, and such gotten more attention. I've tried it a couple times, it was just ok, and not much better than most other decent veggie burger patties. Not groundbreaking and not worth more money than any others. I haven't tried impossible foods yet. Looking for them.

delecti 7y ago
Impossible burgers aren't available to consumers. IMO Beyond isn't quite as good, but I can get it at the grocery store, and it's still much closer to the real thing than any veggie burgers I've tried other than Impossible. Note that that's not necessarily better than other veggie burgers, just closer to beef. IMO Impossible is even still closer to beef, and also the best burger I've ever had.
- LegitShady 7y ago
  Impossible burgers being slower to market did allow beyond meat to cash in, as I said,but impossible burger has an interesting product with the yeast sourced heme. As I said, beyond is just a veggie burger with a slightly better recipe than the last guy, cashing in on the buzz impossible created before they could come to market. And now wonder - impossible had a novel product. Beyond has a veggie burger.