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The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

You can already make low carb pasta dishes using zucchini and various flour replacements, and there are plenty of low carb tortilla brands.

But none of those taste and feel like real pasta, whereas the impossible burger tastes and feels like a real burger.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to develop a "Further Than Fish" replacement

I don't think those numbers have any relationship to taste, but if you insist - life first appeared on earth 3.5 billion years ago, so the majority of that will be the exact same, it should take a minor modification to get to fish.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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post #3

Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

Spaghetti Squash really surprised me. You need to figure out how to cook it right or else it gets a bit too "wet/oily", but it can really be quite amazing.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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post #3

Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

What is the problem with carbohydrates? If it is the refined grain part in pasta and bread, then there are already solutions: whole wheat products.

Who do you thing would go for the beyond wheat products?

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to develop a "Further Than Fish" replacement

Food science isn't a linear process based on the evolutionary complexity of the organisms we eat.

Arguably cows have been impacted by as much evolution as any organism. It's not as though cows spontaneously generated 100M years ago - there were hundreds of millions of years leading up to cows becoming what we recognize today.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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post #9
post #3

Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

Are you Famine [1]? 1: https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Famine_(Good_Omens)

Since you can live without carbohydrates but not without protein and fat it seems like the opposite.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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post #3

Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

For the sake of the planet and animals, I'm thrilled with the fact Beyond is focusing on animal product replacements.

As someone who enjoys meat, I'm excited to be able to finally get options that don't involve killing something to get there.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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post #3

Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

What is the problem with carbohydrates? If it is the refined grain part in pasta and bread, then there are already solutions: whole wheat products. Who do you thing would go for the beyond wheat products?

There are plenty of people who are on low/no carb diets. Keto being a notable example.

Re: The Race to Become the Beyond Meat of Fish

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post #3

Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.

What is the problem with carbohydrates? If it is the refined grain part in pasta and bread, then there are already solutions: whole wheat products. Who do you thing would go for the beyond wheat products?

People who want to be healthy. I get fat if I even look a piece of bread or bowl of pasta. But I sure do miss the taste and would love a substitute.
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