- I feel like I just swallowed a whole cup of salt.
- It tastes good, but I don't trust it.
♪ (French accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) Today, you get to try this.
- Okay, a hamburger. Ooh, this one smells really good.
- It's a burger? - (FBE) It's a burger.
- Okay. I'm confused.
The meat's gonna be made out of something weird.
- I bet you anything it's not any burger,
'cause you guys don't do that.
- It just looks like a fancy, ciabatta bun type sandwich.
- Looks like it's got some avocado
and the meat is medium rare.
- It looks completely normal to me.
It looks tasty. Barring any surprises here
and there, I think I could eat this.
- I feel like I know what it is,
'cause I've seen things where it's supposed to be
this vegan burger that's supposed to mimic meat.
Was it impossimeat or something?
Or Impossible Meats. I don't know, I'm curious about it.
- (FBE) So, now you get to try it.
- Okay. Smells like a regular,
shmegular burger. Okay, so we opened it.
It looks normal.
- The texture's way different from a regular hamburger.
It's peeling apart. Okay, so this is not
a regular patty is what I'm seeing now.
- All right, here we go.
Once you bite into it, you get all the flavors in there,
the avocado. The patty, it tastes like
a normal beef patty to me.
- It tastes like a burger.
- It's a little spicy. It tastes good,
but I don't trust it.
- I can almost immediately taste that it wasn't meat
because of the texture. The patty itself did seem
a little bit dryer than your average burger.
- The meat is super salty. I feel like I just swallowed
a whole cup of salt. It doesn't even taste
like a regular hamburger. It's very mushy and soft.
- It just gives me grass vibes, 'cause it doesn't--
it just doesn't feel like beef.
- (FBE) You just ate the Impossible Burger.
Have you heard of this before? - No.
What's impossible about this?
- (FBE) So, a startup company in California's Silicon Valley
set out to make the global food system more sustainable,
so the Impossible Burger is made from simple
ingredients found in nature, including wheat and
potato protein, coconut oil, and a magic ingredient called heme
that makes the patties look, taste, smell, and even bleed
like actual meat. - What?
That's pretty interesting. It's a good burger.
- (FBE) Heme is an important molecule, part of every cell
in every animal and plant. It's in a protein called hemoglobin
and it's what makes your blood red.
- Oh, I got you. 'Cause heme means blood.
That's the root word. That's one of the first
root words I learned in anatomy.
- (FBE) So, heme is exceptionally abundant in animal muscle
and it's a basic building block of life in all organisms,
including plants. - That's interesting.
I didn't know about the heme thing.
That's cool information to know.
It definitely does not juice like a real burger does,
with the fat from a real burger.
- (FBE) Compared to a burger made from cows,
making an Impossible Burger uses one twentieth of the land,
one fourth the water, and produces one eighth
the greenhouse gas emissions. - I'm impressed,
'cause it doesn't taste like plants.
- That fooled me. I thought it was
a regular burger from down the street or something.
- (FBE) After trying this, does this have any influence
on you eating meat? - Yeah, considering
I do eat meat and this is far from meat in general,
it makes me realize that there are substitutes
and you can get your substitutes from different things.
- Personally, I don't know if I would incorporate it
into my diet at all, maybe eventually if
I'm trying to become more healthy then
I'll definitely incorporate more plant based stuff
and maybe eventually follow the vegan trend.
- I know I probably won't go 100% vegan
or vegetarian or anything, but it's nice to see
that you have your options. So, if I were to,
it's not the end of it. I can still taste meat.
- You don't really need to have meat from animals
in order to get your protein. We have more resources available,
so getting it form plants is healthy for the environment.
- I could just imagine doctors suggesting this as
an alternative now.
- If it was a lot more accessible, that it wasn't--
you have to go somewhere in particular to get it,
I wouldn't mind switching, 'cause it's essentially
doing the same thing to me for the reasons
that I eat meat, you know? It's satisfying me.
It tastes just like a burger.
- It's really cool to see how far we've come
with food technology, because we're honestly
coming so close to where we're gonna be able
to synthetically grow meat without having to harm
animals or create excessive greenhouse gasses.
Damn close with this, for sure.
- I feel like it's even more satisfying to eat knowing
that it's good and that there's not a little cow in this.
It makes me happy.
- I really like how they're just trying to use things
from the Earth. I give the people props
for making this.
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