Posted on 05/11/2021 5:28:23 PM PDT by algore
Impossible Foods has secured Child Nutrition Labels for its Impossible Burger products, which means they can now be part of school nutrition programs in the US. To obtain the CN Labels, USDA's Food and Nutrition Services had to evaluate the plant-based meat's product formulation, as well as the company's quality control procedures and manufacturing processes.
Now that it has acquired CN Labels for its products, the company is launching K-12 pilot programs this month in partnership with several school districts. The Palo Alto Unified School District in California, the Aberdeen School District in Washington, the Deer Creek Public Schools in Edmond, Oklahoma and the Union City Public Schools in Union City, Oklahoma will be using Impossible's faux meat in a variety of dishes for their menu. Those dishes include tacos, frito pies and spaghetti with Impossible meat sauce. Other school districts can easily obtain Impossible products from suppliers to add them to their menus, as well.
More Fake Food
Just as well you didn’t like it, there’s a whole slew of health reports coming out lately that allude to these products not being the best thing to consume.
Indeed.....I have a physician neighbor/friend who is adamantly anti soy and soy products.
Can name several dozen nasty health issues brought on by soy consumption. Calls it a “stealth poison”.
According to Impossible Foods’ website, the five main ingredients of an Impossible Burger 2.0 are:
Water
Soy-protein concentrate
Coconut oil
Sunflower oil
Natural flavors.
Impossible “meat” also contains 2% or less of:
Potato protein
Methylcellulose
Yeast extract
Cultured dextrose
Food starch, modified
Soy leghemoglobin
Salt
Soy-protein isolate
Mixed tocopherols (vitamin E)
Zinc gluconate
Thiamine hydrochloride (Vitamin B1)
Sodium ascorbate (vitamin C)
Niacin
Pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6)
Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
Vitamin B12
Methylcellulose is essentially wood.
It’s a gimmick, meant for the enviro purists. “Meat” without the meat but not nearly as healthy. All those ingredients have to be sourced somehow. I prefer a cow eating grass that comes up with a meat that is real meat.
“They warn about eating processed foods and then push this highly processed garbage on them.”
Couldn’t help but notice the same. They demand NO ARTIFICIAL INGREDIENTS, and then push this crap. I guess dumping chemicals into kids is just fine, if it is THEIR CHEMICALS.
Soy ‘’protein’’ is a problem.
Meat is the easiest way to get the amino acids that the body **needs**.
Soy, on the other hand, lacks one or more amino acids, making it an incomplete protein. Would need to add cheese (More fat added), like they used to do on PB&Js in school lunches.
Plus ‘’impossible’’ burger has 50% more saturated fat.
Beyond Meat is much better IMO.
It is pea based instead of soy. And does involve GMOs in production
I know. Alot of bad side effects.
Sounds like cheap dog food...
Is it a complete protein? To my knowledge, no vegetable protein is
Otherwise, it’s NOT going to do well as a substitute.
Expensive dog food—even dogs get meat scraps.
If LIEberals are for it, I am AGAINST it!
Soylent Green is people!
Sounds like they have far more production capacity than demand within existing sales channels
This is great reset type of stuff.
Alpo “extra cuts” dog food ingredients off the Purina website.
Nutrition
Ingredients
Water sufficient for processing, chicken, meat by-products, wheat gluten, turkey, soy flour, corn starch-modified, carrots, potatoes, green beans, tricalcium phosphate, potassium chloride, added color, choline chloride, calcium carbonate, MINERALS [zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, copper sulfate, manganese sulfate, potassium iodide, sodium selenite], VITAMINS [Vitamin E supplement, niacin (Vitamin B-3), thiamine mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), calcium pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), pyridoxine hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Vitamin B-12 supplement, riboflavin supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin A supplement, folic acid (Vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 supplement, biotin (Vitamin B-7)].
You’re right, there isn’t much difference. At least there is no methylcellulose—wood.
You are correct-also the best source of protein for either sex happens to be meat, fish, etc-not processed frankenfood-I eat paleo style with some dairy- and processed food soy products, GMOs are not on my menu at all, ever-not even white rice-and it doesn’t get more processed than faux meat made from stuff that is just barely even natural-any parent who lets their kid eat that stuff might as well feed them frozen junk that they put in the microwave-yum, yum...
My mom thought SPAM was unhealthy processed by-products-she called it S*** Posing As Meat-she would really freak out over this fake meat crap...
The food I buy for my 3 cats has more natural ingredients than that stuff-I’m sure they wouldn’t eat one of those fake burgers unless they were starved...
Also soy is known for that. Don’t eat it, guys.
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