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Impossible Foods introduces Pork
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This is ok for fast food, sodium is not that bad compared with other fast food items.
Vegan people don't eat this shit everyday.
Vegan people don't eat this shit everyday.
Also that salt
e: note you will typically be adding salt to this pork once you eat it so its not actually 75mg
Good example of why the mindset many people have of "Vegan Food = Healthy" isn't great vs "Vegan Food = Helps Animals/The Environment".
I thought that sodium was insane, but apparently we're good with something like 1500mg a day.
I guess it's not that awful if you don't go overboard throughout the day.
Looking at a sliced ham sandwich with a sub's worth of meat on it, you'll get a solid 550mg+ with one sandwich.
I guess it's not that awful if you don't go overboard throughout the day.
Looking at a sliced ham sandwich with a sub's worth of meat on it, you'll get a solid 550mg+ with one sandwich.
it's like... vegans want to pig out and eat junk food sometimes too. i don't know why that concept is really hard to grasp for some people.
good godAlso that salt
e: note you will typically be adding salt to this pork once you eat it so its not actually 75mg
Not judging the fake meat but WTF is this blasphemy? A croissant... with cheese, with a burger they call sausage? i don't get it. lol
This issue arises in every vegan/vegetarian discussion. I know a ton of vegan/vegetarian's and legitimately everyone of them made that choice based on environmental concerns and animal welfare. The argument of "you know you're not as healthy as you think ya are!" is such a trash argument I hear from people all the time.
Eh? Pork sausage vs. beef burger. Spiced way differently.
I'm not american, i've never seen a sausage in a burger form. Also, a croissant as a bun is crazy to me lol. A croissant is super buttery (in my country anyway)..
This drives me crazy. Like when a menu has their veggie burger and it comes with a salad instead of fries (assuming they're cooked in a vegetable based oil and not animal fat), because they think anyone who isn't eating meat obviously is doing it because they want health food.
I still think about a Chinese restaurant that used to be in my neighborhood that had their fake meats and other strictly vegetarian options on a separate sheet labeled "healthy menu." Probably 70% of it was deep fried.
One of my favorite 100% vegetarian restaurants is a diner with lots of standard diner fare. I don't go there because I'm trying to eat healthy food, I go there to eat a big sloppy sandwich and plate of fries.
The croissant is or should be buttery. I grew up in Europe with the classic ham and cheese croissant sandwich among others, and this is just a breakfast take on that. The pork was ham and is now a semi-spicy sausage and the cheese is cheddar or other melty variety. The croissant is the same.
Those aren't the people I'm talking about. My post was addressing people (from US celebs, to the average US citizen trying to lose weight and saw a instagram model saying you could lose weight going Vegan, to people who watched one too many Netflix Documentaries) who think of Vegan/Vegetarian lifestyles as "the new healthy diet" and only think of it as a way to be healthy/don't actually care about animals or the environment. You'd be surprised at how many people who assume things like the Impossible Burger/Beyond Burger are "healthier" than meat Burgers simply because it's Vegan, vs just being a food alternative that helps animals/the environment.
it's a "patty" not a burger. they patty out sausage like that in the UK too.
cool.
we tried a beyond meat sausage the other day. It was greasy and flamed up the grill like a real meat sausage. However i can't help but feel it was missing *something* for me it wasn't as good as some of the best sausage ive had, like it needed more spices and herbs in it. That said i wanted to try their hot italian, but the store was out of it when we went back.
we tried a beyond meat sausage the other day. It was greasy and flamed up the grill like a real meat sausage. However i can't help but feel it was missing *something* for me it wasn't as good as some of the best sausage ive had, like it needed more spices and herbs in it. That said i wanted to try their hot italian, but the store was out of it when we went back.
That's not actually true. Pork as prepared has higher sodium.
Mind you a breakfast sandwich is never a healthy decision, it's a sometimes food.
*Triggered*
Somehow I doubt the Loma Linda "blue zone" people would eat this.
Because for some of us it increases our blood pressure.
It's also not just the sodium in the fake-pork, it's also the sodium in the bread for the sandwich and whatever else is in there. It adds up.
But this is one of the reasons why I don't eat out much or buy much in the way of processed food - tons of sodium (and often sugar) is added to everything. I mean you can't even buy Eggo Waffles and not get 410mg of sodium per serving. 95% cook for myself and don't use the salt shaker much or at all. There's other ways to add flavor.
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I don't see an issue with the salt. Doesn't all processed pork sausage has a ridiculous amount of salt:
yeah and this is a 2 oz serving. the 4 oz impossible patty is lower in sodium.
Oh I'm not surprised by that at all, I hear it all the time from people. When I have beyond meat at a gathering of some sort like a barbecue or family party, people will be like "YoU ReAliZE it's BAd FoR yOu So WhY BoThEr?!?!" Beyond and impossible have really never advertised themselves as health foods, it's just alternatives for people who choose not to eat meat for moral reasons. It's nice to have something that's so similar to the taste/texture of meat.
Did Beyond do something untoward that I missed? I'm a pretty big fan of their burgers.
I've tried them a couple of times and have found their stuff inedible. Nauseates me. Impossible tastes fine, good even. Beyond tastes like a lab specimen.
Sodium ain't THAT high if you compare to most fast food joints.
In any case, some kidney stones never hurt! Oh wait...
In any case, some kidney stones never hurt! Oh wait...
For reference folks, the average north american is consuming about 3500mg of sodium... most of you probably would be stunned to know how much you intake in a day. This is not that dramatic a sodium load all things considered.
Keeping it under 2000mg a day is health, mainly to avoid the onset or worsening of hypertension.
Keeping it under 2000mg a day is health, mainly to avoid the onset or worsening of hypertension.
I love the idea of impossible meats... but goddamn that sodium. They'll need to start selling it with a free dose of blood pressure medicine.
sodium in 4oz deli turkey
1,049mg
sodium in 4oz ground pork, eaten raw and unseasoned, as most americans eat it
0mg
Yeah i've tried to avoid deli meats. They're delicious but I always heard they were very unhealthy.
In on Impossible Pork. Can't wait to see what Impossible brings to CES 2021.
And if there's any fellow heavy-sodium-loving Impossible fans on here, there's a just launched Impossible rewards program that ships out free Impossible shirts to the first 10k signups. Pretty sure my referral link I have copied is against the rules to share, but a general link is at the top of Impossible's social media presence.
And if there's any fellow heavy-sodium-loving Impossible fans on here, there's a just launched Impossible rewards program that ships out free Impossible shirts to the first 10k signups. Pretty sure my referral link I have copied is against the rules to share, but a general link is at the top of Impossible's social media presence.
Some of y'all need to take a look at the stuff you currently eat before commenting about the sodium in the impossible pork lol.
I have been vegan since 1994. I probably know well over a hundred other vegans. 99.99% became vegan for ethical reasons, environmental reasons, with a small fraction for health reasons. Exactly 0% of them became vegan because they don't like the taste of meat, and therefore don't want to eat food that tastes like meat. I doubt there's a single health food store or food co-op in this entire country that doesn't carry dozens of different plant-based meat / cheese / milk options....
tl;dr you don't have any clue what you're talking about.
Cool cool. I forgot that "we'll over a hundred vegans" constituents a significant percentage of the population.
Yours is a personal anecdote, just like my account is. It's also weirdly hostile.
The vegans I know— of which a few are immediate family members
(but who the fuck cares?)
So they probably feel the same way about alternative milk, do they not eat anything that mimics the use and taste of dairy milk?
Like, nut milk or milk from grains (hemp, oat, etc..) ? They drink that. Those alternatives don't taste anything like milk and, probably more importantly, aren't marketed as "impossible milk" or "tastes just like cow's milk!" etc..
Most of the vegans in my life tend to avoid animal products as well as byproducts, including honey. Not my thing personally, but it's their body, their rules.
It's the American way to bastardize everything.
I want to try it.