Love the taste of hamburgers but don't like the idea of where they've come from?
Start-up company Impossible Foods have created a burger that looks like beef, smells like beef, tastes like beef, has a texture like beef, and even bleeds like beef – but it's made entirely from plants.
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Inventing the 'Impossible Burger' was no easy feat – it's cost scientist £60 million to develop, over the course of five years, with help from Momofuku chef David Chang.
So what's the magic formula? The 'Impossible Burger' get its bloodiness and life-likeness from an ingredient called heme, which is a molecule found in animals and some plants that acts to give the 'meat' its red texture and iron-y taste.
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This plant-based blood replica helps give the veggie burger a meaty taste and texture - which is fine, if vegetarians want a really close replica of a beefburger (some might want to avoid the blood part!)
The only *slight* issue is that in order to bite into one of these burgers you'll have to travel to New York, where it's being sold a Momofuku.
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