UW Nutrition Physiologist: Impossible Burgers That Are Not Meat Does Not Deserve A Health Glory

The Plant-based Impossible and Beyond Burgers have appeared everywhere of late, proving very popular with people who need to think they taste just as good as real burgers. They certainly provide a fantastic placebo effect as a healthy alternative to beef, but according to UW Medicine dietitian Judy Simon, they are nowhere near as healthy as advertised and probably won't give you eternal life.

"They were really created to be a non-meat alternative to people who really wanted a burger, so they tried to make them look and taste and feel like a burger… these more meat-like burgers that aren't meat are really pretty processed and they're pretty expensive, "Simon said.

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The problem becomes a bit obvious when you get the ingredients, something Simon says is not as natural or healthy as lesser-known alternatives. [1[ads1]9659007] "I see if the ingredients come from real food. So, for example, when we look at this bean burger, the first ingredient is black beans. When I look at Beyond Burger, the first ingredient is water," she said.

"If someone tries to reduce their intake of red meat … instead of eating burgers three days a week, they go down to one or two because they have a" Beyond Burger ", they can cut their intake of red meat and getting some pea intake, and that might be a better improvement, but just giving it a health glory, like "Wow, this is going to change your life," I don't think it's going to do that. [19659008] More news from KIRO 7

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