How to lower the price of plant-based meat

Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by elif on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:50PM (#26051891)

I'm not sure that tracks.

Impossible burger: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Antioxidant), Soy Protein Isolate, Vitamins and Minerals (Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12).

These are common ingredients?

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by chipotle_coyote on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:17PM (#26052326)

For the vast majority of those ingredients, the answer sure looks like "yes." A few are literally standard home cooking ingredients, and nearly all the rest (dextrose, yeast extract, vitamin mixes, etc.) are pretty common in any processed food, which -- let's be honest here -- a lot of us buy pretty regularly. I'm not sure there's anything there that's unique to the Impossible Burger other than the "soy leghemoglobin".

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by Spivak on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:24PM (#26052367)

Yeast extract is Marmite! And dextrose is a derivative of corn syrup. And enriched flour is characterized by having vitamins added to it. So they’re not that uncommon either.

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by chipotle_coyote on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:21PM (#26052620)

D'oh! Being an American with little Marmite exposure, I'd totally forgotten it was yeast extract. :)

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by GordonS on Sunday February 07, 2021 @07:01AM (#26054462)

I don't know what on earth you cook at home, but "salt" and maybe "sunflower oil" are about the only things on that long list that sound like a "standard home cooking ingredient".

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Re:How to lower the price of plant-based meat by Spivak on Saturday February 06, 2021 @10:19PM (#26052339)

Yes and no. All of these are common ingredients in commercial food production. You’ll see these in all sorts of stuff at your local grocery store. Not so common in your kitchen though.

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