Friday Favorites: Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthy?

Date: 2024-01-19 12:59:47

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What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?

Check out these other videos in this series on plant-based meats:
• The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-environmental-impacts-of-plant-based-meat-substitutes/)
• Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-protein-are-pea-and-soy-protein-isolates-harmful/)
• Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-meat-substitutes-put-to-the-test/)
• The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-health-effects-of-mycoprotein-quorn-products/)
• What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-the-heme-in-impossible-burgers/)
• Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-heme-iron-cause-cancer/)
• Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/heme-induced-n-nitroso-compounds-and-fat-oxidation/)
• Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-heme-iron-the-reason-meat-is-carcinogenic/)

You may also be interested in getting the digital download (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/plant-based-and-cultivated-meat-digital) from my webinar on this topic.

Note: In 2022, Impossible Foods announced it is cutting the saturated fat in its plant-based burgers from 8 grams down to 6 grams.

Want to make your own healthful, whole-food veggie burger? Check out the recipe for Black Bean Burgers (https://nutritionfacts.org/recipe/black-bean-burger/) from my first cookbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-die-cookbook/).

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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