Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to the real deal

Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by DDebbieDDowner on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:03AM (#18856492)

>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.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by ufo on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:04PM (#18857752)

Impossible burger's recipe features large amounts of soy leghemoglobin, sourced from transgenic yeast.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by moate on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:06PM (#18857774)

"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.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by DDebbieDDowner on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:51PM (#18858288)

"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.

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Re:Meat-free 'Impossible Burger 2.0' tastes even closer to t... by moate on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:27PM (#18858715)

If 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.

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