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"they're lower in sodium and saturated fat than your average hamburger patty" If you buy a Beyond patty, it has way more sodium than ground beef you'd buy at a
by rcakebread 6mo ago
"they're lower in sodium and saturated fat than your average hamburger patty"
If you buy a Beyond patty, it has way more sodium than ground beef you'd buy at a grocerty store. Comparing it with a fast food burger isn't really fair.
- kulahan 6mo agoNot really - every single Burger King out there sells the beyond burger as far as I've seen.
- messe 6mo agoIf they're selling in a supermarket, it's more than fair to compare them to those offerings. Who's buying Burger King more than grocery shopping?
- AlecSchueler 6mo agoI've eaten maybe 5 burgers at home in my 35 years but I've eaten plenty more at fast food restaurants.
- messe 6mo agoAnd I've eaten far more at home than out in my 29. It's really not that common to eat out that often where I live.
- AlecSchueler 6mo agoThat's fine. You asked "Who's buying Burger King more than grocery shopping?" My point was that groceries in general don't matter, only burgers. Some people almost never eat burgers at home and eat them exclusively at places like Burger King.
- messe 6mo agoThat's a fair point.
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- gowld 6mo agoBurger King sells Impossible, not Beyond.
- ccppurcell 6mo agoI've never eaten a beyond burger or anything like that at home. At home the improvement in flavour over tofu or just beans isn't worth it. I can get flavour from herbs spices and other ingredients. I've only ever eaten beyond burgers at restaurants.
- carlmr 6mo ago>it has way more sodium than ground beef you'd buy at a grocerty store We're not comparing fairly here. A finished hamburger patty is not pure ground beef. Did you ever make a hamburger patty yourself? You add salt and spices at a minimum. A more fair comparison would be looking at store-bought hamburger patties. That's the same category of food. I just compared Beyond (0.75g salt per 100g) and block house American Burger (0.88g per 100g). The patties are somewhat similar in weight, too (113g and 125g). So both in absolute, and weight relative amounts the Beyond burger has less sodium.
- iinnPP 6mo agoYou don't need salt and spices to make a burger, it can be 100% beef with no additives. A pinch of salt can be like 0.3g/burger and you're fine as well. I don't eat that these days, my burgers are actually 25% beef and 75% lentil/seasoning. Still under 0.5g/100g
- kleiba 6mo agoLet me assure you that you're in the vast minority if you add little or no salt at all to your home-made burger patties.
- edgyquant 6mo agoThe GP is talking about health conscious folks
- Jensson 6mo agoStill meat is very low sodium, it is weird to say plant based alternatives have less sodium since both have as much salt as you add since there is almost none naturally.
- kleiba 6mo agoBut then you're comparing apples an oranges: meat is low in sodium in its unprocessed form, but so are all the ingredients of the plant-based alternative before adding salt. What matters is not so much the natural form, it is how the product is typically consumed. But of course I see your point that with home made meat-based patties, you are in control of how much salt you want to add, while with factory made patties, you have to take what you get, it's typically not possible to "take away" salt. Mind you, though, the latter argument holds for both plant-based and meat-based factory-made patties.
- mcdonje 6mo agoYou're comparing a burger patty to a burger ingredient. Two different things. Not a reasonable comparison.
- iinnPP 6mo agoA burger can be made from that solitary ingredient though.
- eeixlk 6mo agosoy?
- ben_w 6mo agoPure soy doesn't taste too good in my experience. I tend to prep the dehydrated stuff I get with (ironically) soy sauce, which is quite salty, plus whatever else the recipe I'm using the soy in calls for. In the case of soy burgers, that mince needs some binding agent.
- ndsipa_pomu 6mo agoIt's odd, as I generally agree that "pure soya" doesn't taste that great, but I do prefer the taste of edamame beans which are just young soybeans. Products like tofu generally need more flavour adding to it - and I personally like tofu and eat it fairly regularly, so I'm not biased against it. Also, I like the taste of Natto (soybeans fermented in straw) though that's generally thought of as an acquired taste.
- mcdonje 6mo agoI think that's rather uncommon. The closest I've seen is someone smashing down some ground beef then putting salt and pepper on it before cooking.
- ricardobayes 6mo ago"Loaded with sodium" is what the agrolobby wants you to think. If you knew what goes into supermarket burger patties I guarantee you would never want to touch them ever again. Look up nitrates for starter, which is used as a preservative in some meat products: burgers, hotdogs, cold cuts.
- edgyquant 6mo agoGround beef from the butcher does not have nitrates
- deepvibrations 6mo agoIn my opinion, there are two options for each group: Meat: 1. Those who buy from butcher (health conscious) 2. Those who buy packaged products from supermarket. Vegan: 1. Those who make homemade plant-based alternatives (eg.lentil burgers) 2. Those who buy Beyond burgers from supermarket. Hence I think most people are trying to compare apples to oranges, which is not the correct comparison to make when weighing up each type.
- mrkstu 6mo agoI think a lot of those here are likely warehouse club buyers- Costco doesn't add anything to their ground beef or frozen patties. Sams 'seasons' some of their patties, but no nitrates.
- liveoneggs 6mo agohttps://bubbafoods.com/nutrition/bubba-angus-beef-2lb/ https://bubbafoods.com/nutrition/bubba-angus-beef-2lb/ Ingredients: beef https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger Ingredients: a bunch
- gowld 6mo agoBeef is a bunch of ingredients mixed together by a a cow.