The veggies Although they sulk meat, they sometimes want a good big burger (without going through the soybean steak) that smells of meat without being it. A daydream ? Think again, a Californian start-up has just invented the first burger with fake meat but which reproduces the taste.
At first glance, it looks like the classic hamburger steak wedged between two slices of bread. Besides, its appearance is just as salivating for lovers of carnivorous burgers. With one difference: this rare sandwich is 100% vegetable and therefore has its place in the veggie menu. Impossible but true. Moreover “Impossible burger” is the nickname given to this culinary invention.
The secret is based on coconut oil, natural flavors and above all a star ingredient that changes everything: heme, a molecule present in hemoglobin and which makes all this meaty flavor without being one.
Watch what happened last night when @munchies cooked @ImpossibleFoods burger w / @davidchanghttps://t.co/GG7JK0Yigbpic.twitter.com/kuIPP2p6BT
– Helen Hollyman (@HHOLLYMAN) July 27, 2016
While excess red meat gets a bad press – its excessive consumption could increase the risk of cancer – it’s a safe bet that this rare veggie burger has a bright future ahead of it.
Red meat consumption to limit
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the WHO, suggested that a diet high in processed meat could be linked to 34,000 deaths per year.
She then qualified her assertions by suggesting limiting the consumption of red meat to prevent the risk of colorectal cancer.
Each 50 gram serving of processed meat eaten every day increases the risk of colorectal cancer by about 18%, recalls World Health Organization.
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