Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
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Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#2Pretty cool
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#3> Soy
I wonder how the community here will respond to this. Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago. Turning around to gush over soy would be completely incoherent.
"Soy as health food" is diabolically false.
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#4Tofu/soy burgers have been around for >20 years already. How is this significantly different?
[Edit: way to be downvoted instantly for asking a serious critical question. Remember when hn prided itself on a higher level of discussion than reddit?]
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#5Tried it, tastes. OK. A bit like meat, smells a bit like a barn.
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#6> Soy I wonder how the community here will respond to this. Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago. Turning around to gush over soy would be completely incoherent. "Soy as health food" is diabolically false.
> "Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago."
Do you have a link to that story?
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#7> Soy I wonder how the community here will respond to this. Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago. Turning around to gush over soy would be completely incoherent. "Soy as health food" is diabolically false.
This seems to be one molecule from the soy plant.
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#8> Soy I wonder how the community here will respond to this. Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago. Turning around to gush over soy would be completely incoherent. "Soy as health food" is diabolically false.
Their "soy leghemoglobin" doesn't come from soy though. It comes from GMO Algae. Presumably they could reprogram that algae to produce a different hemoglobin-like molecule.
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#9I remember reading the original impressions of the Impossible Foods ground meat and thinking it was just media buzz.
I promise you it is not.
At Momofuku's Ssam Bar in the East Village of NYC, you can order an off menu item called Spicy Pork Sausage and Rice Cakes. It's not really off the menu - the item has simply been around so long and is so well known to regulars that they left it off to make room for new dishes.
I've had it more times than I count.
At lunch time however, they serve Spicy "Impossible Sausage" and Rice Cakes. The first time I ordered it, I was ready to complain about one of my favorite things ruined by a hyped product.
But then I took my first bite, and it somehow tasted better than the pork sausage version. I've been back many times since and the Impossible Foods version of the dish is often tastier than the pork version.
Let that sink in for a moment. Impossible Foods was able to replace high quality pork sausage served in a beloved dish at one of New York's buzziest restaurants and make the dish better.
The vast majority of ground meat in the American food chain is of lower quality. If Impossible Foods can replace that ground meat at scale, the ramifications are enormous. They will reduce by a huge margin the number of animal lives and quantity of CO2 necessary to feed us.
Re: Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers
#10> Soy I wonder how the community here will respond to this. Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago. Turning around to gush over soy would be completely incoherent. "Soy as health food" is diabolically false.
> "Most here seemed upset by the male-infertility story from a week or two ago." Do you have a link to that story?
Actually only 6 days ago.