- The Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger
are the first vegan burger patties
said to mimic the actual taste and texture of meat,
and they've gotten insanely popular since
they first broke out on the... music scene?
No!
Their album sucks!
Veggie burgers, garden burgers, vegan burgers,
we've had multiple meat-free options
for beef burger substitutes for years.
But until now, we've never had any that actually bleed.
The Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger
are the first vegan burger patties
said to mimic the actual taste and texture of meat,
and they've gotten insanely popular
since they first broke out on the food scene.
So, what's in them?
What makes them bleed and most importantly,
what do they taste like?
Well, Beyond Burger is mainly pea protein, coconut oil,
yeast, potato starch, and it's beet juice
that gives it its bloody color.
Impossible Burger's mock meat is made of wheat protein,
coconut oil, potato protein, and heme.
So what's heme?
Well, I don't know, but the internet says
that it's an iron containing compound
of the porphyrin class that forms
the non-protein part of hemoglobin
and some other biological molecules.
Mm, delicious.
Impossible Burger says it's exceptionally abundant
in animal muscle and it's a basic building block
of life in all organisms, including plants.
Heme is what gives the patty a beef-like smell and texture.
So, when we crave meat, we're actually craving heme,
and the Impossible Burger has it.
Maybe it's a little weird
to picture our burger patties being made by scientists
in lab coats, but hey, maybe it feels a little bit better
than thinking about our burger patties
being made with living flesh
in unethical, overcrowded factory farms
that are destroying the earth.
I mean, I don't know, you pick.
Or, maybe we don't need the heme.
Beyond Burger claims to achieve a delicious,
savory, meaty flavor and texture
without genetically modified heme.
We really should get to the bottom of this.
So here today we have the Impossible Burger
and the Beyond Burger back to back, head to head.
I'm gonna tell you exactly
how I really feel, let's taste them.
Number one, the Impossible Burger.
It looks like beef.
It looks like a little bit flakier than beef,
but it definitely looks like a beef patty, which is weird.
Same color, almost the same texture.
OK, let's try it.
It's good.
Look, it's pink in the middle.
That looks like a medium or a medium-rare burger.
I feel like maybe I could be tricked
into thinking that this is meat,
but maybe that's just because of all the burger toppings.
Let me try it on it's own.
Yeah, it's good.
It doesn't taste too much like one
of those weird, rubbery soy patties.
It has a nice texture to it.
It really falls apart just like a burger, which is weird.
I'm gonna take another bite.
Excuse me.
I'm a big fan of veggie burgers
that just are made out of vegetables, 'cause I like vegetables.
If I really wanted meat and I didn't eat beef,
this would be a great option.
It's crazy how much it looks like beef.
That's so weird that it's pink in the middle.
It's good, heme is delicious.
I love heme, OK.
The Beyond Burger, this doesn't look like meat.
I don't know what that looks like.
Yeah, it looks like a cake.
It's a good-looking burger though, all of it, you know?
The whole thing.
So this is a little bit pinker.
It doesn't quite look like beef.
Almost looks like a slice of tomato from far away,
which is a little bit confusing.
Let's check it out.
It's pretty good.
You can tell not eating meat,
it kind of has that sort of vegan protein taste to it.
It's kind of wild though 'cause this one too,
when you bite into it, it's pink.
It almost looks like you might have
to send the burger back.
It looks like a rare beef burger,
which I like a rare beef burger,
but it depends on where you are.
If I got a burger that looked like this
at McDonald's, I would send it back.
It's tasty, it's really tasty.
It's good, I'm gonna have another bite.
I am not fooled by these.
I can tell that they are not made out of meat,
but having said that, they're both delicious.
I would eat them again and when you think about
how much better they are for the environment
and how much better they are for cute little animals,
I would definitely eat them a million other times.
So good job Impossible Burger
and Beyond Burger, these are good.
I'm Lee Kalpakis and this is "Foodcasting."
Don't forget to subscribe and
if you wanna see more food coverage,
you can click the link in the description below.
And if you wanna see a video
that's definitely not about vegan burgers,
you can check out this video about wacky chicken wings.