{"id":21649,"date":"2017-12-13T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=21649"},"modified":"2017-12-13T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T11:52:20","slug":"impossible-foods-and-beyond-meat-bite-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/impossible-foods-and-beyond-meat-bite-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat: bite the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Meet the meatless patties aiming to revolutionise the food market<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What if they told you that there is a burger that looks and tastes exactly like a burger, except that it does not include meat? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impossiblefoods.com\">Impossible Foods <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondmeat.com\">Beyond Meat<\/a> SIlicon Valley startups seem to have made it happen. The days of flavourless seitan and mild tofu burgers are (almost) over, since the Beyond Meat CEO <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.just-food.com\/news\/us-plant-based-protein-firm-beyond-meat-eyes-uk-entry_id137910.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">announced<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in October that he is planning to expand the meatless burgers to the UK in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">100% plant-based and already circulating in US restaurants from 2013, they claim to recall the whole meat experience in taste, look and smell. Needless to say, the public has welcomed the meatless burgers with enthusiasm.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cloverfoodlab?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cloverfoodlab<\/a> I reached to the plate with my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/impossibleburger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#impossibleburger<\/a> only to realize I had already finished it. I don&#39;t know if I&#39;ve ever been this sad.  Do you sell a double? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/newfavoritesandwich?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#newfavoritesandwich<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/legitimpossible?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#legitimpossible<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Lurie (@plurie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/plurie\/status\/936663867920437248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So good I ordered another to go! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfigcafe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfigcafe<\/a> in Savannah is heaven for this 4 week old vegan. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/beyondburger?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#beyondburger<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/plantbased?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#plantbased<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pb8khWjmI7\">pic.twitter.com\/pb8khWjmI7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Reyna L. Jones (@ReynaLJones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReynaLJones\/status\/934980339872796672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wonder if vegetarians get turned off by the ridiculously realistic smell of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeyondMeat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BeyondMeat<\/a>. I&#39;m drooling.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ItsNotBloodItsBeets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ItsNotBloodItsBeets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; givn2sin&#8230; is a Depeche Mode fan (@givn2sin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/givn2sin\/status\/936795104253059072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GingerHeadedGal\/status\/925530733417938944\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/GingerHeadedGal\/status\/925530733417938944<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The promising creation catalysed the media attention for its potential repercussions on the environment and the meat market. Personalities such as Bill Gates, Mc Donald&#8217;s CEO and, most lately. Leonardo DiCaprio have invested in the startups, hoping to reduce the uncountable global meat intake. With an extra\u00a055 million raised from funding, Beyond Meat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2017\/12\/beyond-meat-will-triple-production-of-its-plant-burger.html\">stated<\/a> to be ready to triple its production capacity. While the key ingredient for Beyond Meat is pea protein, Impossible Foods features heme, an iron containing molecule highly concentrated in red meats. Apparently, it is because of heme that gives meat its characteristic taste. \u00a0Scientists behind Impossible Foods found a way to genetically harvest soy heme and make the Impossible Burger almost unrecognisable from the real thing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Strange Science of the Impossible Burger | WIRED\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nIiLqNQOgPA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Words: Giulia Trinci<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the meatless patties aiming to revolutionise the food market What if they told you that there is a burger that looks and tastes exactly like a burger, except that it does not include meat?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":22031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[799,1083,3118,4900,6653],"class_list":["post-21649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-beyond-meat","tag-burger","tag-impossible","tag-plant","tag-vegan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}