"Bloody" Veggie Burger, by Meredith Jacques
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A company called Impossible Foods has been working on a veggie burger that looks, smells, feels, and tastes like real meat. When it cooks, it looks like ground beef--sizzles and browns, and it even oozes "blood." How did this impossible food become possible?
The burger is a blend of plant-based proteins and fat and the blood effect is from the molecule heme. Heme is a component of the large molecule hemoglobin in human blood that carries oxygen and makes blood red. It is produced by plants in small quantities. The scientists at Impossible Foods engineered yeast to produce the heme molecule, and it is that heme product that is added to their veggie burgers to give them the realistic look and taste. Flecks of coconut oil are added, which melt during the cooking process causing the burger to ooze fat like a beef burger.
Even meat eaters who tasted the burger said they probably couldn't tell the difference if they didn't know it was a veggie burger!
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/21/482322571/silicon-valley-s-bloody-plant-burger-smells-tastes-and-sizzles-like-meat
supplemental resource: http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/hemoglobin.htm
Why is this type of research important?
How could this new type of "meat" this benefit vegetarians?
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Photo credit: https://medium.com/trendwatching-pulse/why-impossible-burgers-tesla-strategy-shows-how-to-spot-the-trends-of-tomorrow-94531f506632
A company called Impossible Foods has been working on a veggie burger that looks, smells, feels, and tastes like real meat. When it cooks, it looks like ground beef--sizzles and browns, and it even oozes "blood." How did this impossible food become possible?
The burger is a blend of plant-based proteins and fat and the blood effect is from the molecule heme. Heme is a component of the large molecule hemoglobin in human blood that carries oxygen and makes blood red. It is produced by plants in small quantities. The scientists at Impossible Foods engineered yeast to produce the heme molecule, and it is that heme product that is added to their veggie burgers to give them the realistic look and taste. Flecks of coconut oil are added, which melt during the cooking process causing the burger to ooze fat like a beef burger.
Even meat eaters who tasted the burger said they probably couldn't tell the difference if they didn't know it was a veggie burger!
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/21/482322571/silicon-valley-s-bloody-plant-burger-smells-tastes-and-sizzles-like-meat
supplemental resource: http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/hemoglobin.htm
Why is this type of research important?
How could this new type of "meat" this benefit vegetarians?
Would you eat one of these veggie burgers?
I would not eat this unless there was no meat left on earth maggie
ReplyDeleteI could never get myself to eat this even though i understand that it's healthier
ReplyDeleteAdvancements like these could lead to more discoveries in how to make healthier, cheaper, and more sustainable food. Since a lot of vegetarians are vegetarians because they believe that meat is not sustainable, this would let them be able to eat meat.
ReplyDeleteIan He
I would definitely want to try this one day- Lindsay Dehn
ReplyDeleteThis type of research (as far as finding food replacements) is extremely important, and beneficial for the ecosystem. Cows are one of the biggest producers of methane on Earth, (About to 70-120 kg a year, per cow) and are responsible for about 18% of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteIf humans had less of a reliance on cows for meat, that number would drastically decrease. The veggie burger is a more eco-friendly alternative that humans could turn to to get the fee and taste of meat, but protect the environment at the same time.
As somebody who already doesn't like their meat to bleed, I probably wouldn't be able to fully appreciate this burger, even though the blood wasn't real.
-Eva Deniszczuk ★
I feel this burger is fattening and there tricking people to make this burger seem like something its not. -christa
ReplyDeleteeven if this burger is healthier and more towards the attention vegetarians how do they know for a fact that they will still eat this type of burger? -ty
ReplyDeleteI would definately try this burger. The possibility or accurately replicating the textures and flavors of meat in vegetables is pretty cool.
ReplyDelete-Olamide Ayeni
how many calories is this burger
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ReplyDeletethese burgers shoudnt exist -moe
ReplyDeleteThese burgers be like that sometimes
ReplyDeleteRay
DeleteI personally would choose not to eat this burger, although I do think it is cool that scientists were able to develop this advanced meatless food that still tastes like meat.
ReplyDeleteCaroline Wilhelms
how many calories are in this burger
ReplyDeleteSammie Katz