"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?
Would you eat one of these veggie burgers? Why ot why not?
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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? Why ot why not?
I'm glad that science is continuing to advance in plant based foods because the meat industry needs to be cut back.
ReplyDelete^ Myori Felix
DeleteI think it is very cool that it supposedly tastes, and looks like real meat.
ReplyDelete-hannah
I want to know if this can actually make a profit.-Armando
ReplyDeleteis it healthier than a regular hamburger? - lexi
ReplyDeleteI think this is actually a good idea because it is different.Some people do eat a lot of
ReplyDeletemeat,so its not that bad to me.
Tammia Durley
How did they find out what molecule tastes like meat? -Patrick
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't try this burger mostly because I don't care so much about meat. Also, even though it is said to be healthy I don't know what process it has to go through for it to be made.
ReplyDelete- Ogechi Okpara
Agreed, The process of making the burger could be worse for the world than having an actual hamburger.-liam
DeleteI would eat the veggie burgers because it would be saving the lives of cows, and it seems to have lots of beneficial factors. -Klarissa
ReplyDeleteIt would benefit vegetarians because it is another option for them to not actually eat meat but for the taste of it, but more open broadly instead of strictly only chicken, etc . - CALI RIGBY
ReplyDeleteI think it's very interesting to see advancements in this department. Seeing developments like this also makes you wonder what else we can do in a lab to better the state of our environment.
ReplyDelete-Jordan Celestine
DeleteI would not eat the Veggie burger because it probably doesn't taste as good as real meat, if it did taste as good as real meat and is good for the environment then why isn't it a popular burger and why don't more restaurants other than The Cheesecake Factory and White castle use it.
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ReplyDeleteI think this is strange but I personally don't care. At the end of the day food is food and we will still end up wasting most of this burger in the trash. I have a feeling that making this burger will be more costly and more time consuming than regular beef. Yet if we can eliminate cows that should be fine as well.
I wonder if they will make enough money back to even out due to the fact of the burger probably being expensive to make.- Anthony
ReplyDeleteI think this is an innovate way to help the problem with pollution from the beef industry and a good option for vegans. -Avery
ReplyDeleteI think that some people might not want to try the burger because they might not like the thought of the food they are eating being made in a lab by a scientist.
ReplyDeleteAnthony Enriquez
If vegetarians do miss the taste of meat, they could eat the impossible burger. I would not eat the impossible as i see it's just a chemical patty devolved in a lab.
ReplyDelete-Matthew Brooks
i think this is a good way to help people who want the taste of meat but want to help the environment too - Triston
ReplyDeleteThis research is very important from lowering our methane in the atmosphere from cows and could become very useful
ReplyDelete-Daniel Kelly
I think this would be good for vegans and vegetarians alike, because the "meat" is not from real animals.- maria misner
ReplyDeleteIt may be good for vegetarians, but I dont want to hear my meat was being grown in a lab. -Calvin
ReplyDeleteIs this burger actually helping ~devion harris
ReplyDeleteIts nice for people who quit meat for saving animals and not for the taste. they can still enjoy it like they did before and save an animals life.
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