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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 10 2020, @08:08PM   Printer-friendly
from the veggiesaurus dept.

McDonald's unveils McPlant line, which includes meatless patty co-created by Beyond Meat

McDonald's will test a meat-free burger in several markets next year as it adds plant-based menu offerings, which it has coined "McPlant."

International President Ian Borden said that McPlant was created "by McDonald's and for McDonald's." Borden said that the McPlant line could also include chicken substitutes.

McDonald's has not yet disclosed the supplier for the line. A company spokesperson declined to identify their supplier but said that McDonald's will not be manufacturing the products.

But a spokesperson for Beyond Meat said in a statement to CNBC that the company co-created the plant-based patty that will be available as part of the McPlant line. Shares of Beyond rose as much as 4% in afternoon trading after falling as much as 6% earlier on Monday. The stock, which was briefly halted for volatility in both morning and afternoon trading, is currently down less than 1%.

See also: Beyond Meat shares rise on news that it collaborated with McDonald's on the McPlant options
Beyond Meat earnings miss big on declining food service and consumer demand

Beyond Meat's partnership with McDonald's to develop the McPlant burger wasn't enough to keep shares from collapsing after the company posted third-quarter earnings that fell far below analysts' expectations.

The big miss sent shares tumbling nearly 29% in after markets closed Monday after reporting it generated $94.4 million in revenues and a loss of 28 cents per share versus the $132.8 million in revenue and 5 cents per share loss that analysts had expected.

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Following IPO of Beyond Meat, Tyson Foods Plans Launch of its Own Meatless Products
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @02:09AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @02:09AM (#1075995)

    wannabe meats are transition foods - foods for people that want to give up meat for ethical or environmental reasons but love the taste. The problem is that most wannabe meats taste awful. The Beyond Meat chicken and sausage products still taste awful.

    But they did figure out wannabe ground beef, to the point that our family has switched almost entirely. I made chili a few hours ago with the Impossible Foods ground beef substitute, and it tastes as good as when I used to make chili with bison or organic ground beef.

    I like black bean burgers, but I get tired of them in a hurry.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @05:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @05:02PM (#1076193)

    Ground turkey is great in chili, but "turkey bacon" is awful.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday November 11 2020, @08:27PM (2 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday November 11 2020, @08:27PM (#1076292)

    wannabe meats are transition foods - foods for people that want to give up meat for ethical or environmental reasons but love the taste.

    Came here to say this. Once they get done pumping it full of salt and additives and whatnot, they've mostly erased the health benefits.

    One difference is the amount of sodium in a traditional beef burger versus an Impossible Burger. Beef contains very little sodium, unless added independently when cooking, whereas Impossible Burgers contain 370 milligrams or 16 percent of the daily value.

    The “not natural nutrients” McNeill referenced is the genetically modified heme iron that Impossible Burger adds to their product to create that juicy red color and beefy taste.

    Heme is a high-quality iron that is naturally present in all beef. Impossible Foods was able to re-create that essential nutrient by taking the DNA from soybean plants, where heme is found in the root nodules, and inserting it into a genetically engineered yeast, according to its website.

    The Food and Drug Administration approved the genetically modified heme as “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, in July 2018.

    Beyond Meat does not include heme iron in its burger and instead, relies on plant-based iron. Heme iron is more absorbable to the body than plant-based iron, but a company spokesperson says Vitamin C is added to increase that absorbability.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2019/10/25/burger-kings-impossible-burger-veggie-whopper-healthy/4070993002/ [usatoday.com]

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @11:31PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @11:31PM (#1076371)

      Beef contains very little sodium, unless added independently when cooking

      Comparing beef to an impossible burger is a bit ingenuous, most hamburger recipes add a lot of salt to the meat. For instance this is one of the top google hits (the only one I checked) it adds 1.5 tablespoons of seasoned salt to 1.5 lbs of ground beef, and comes out at 1533mg sodium per patty: https://www.thewholesomedish.com/the-best-classic-burger/ [thewholesomedish.com]

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday November 12 2020, @09:54AM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday November 12 2020, @09:54AM (#1076508)

        Presumably you mean disingenuous?

        Definition of ingenuous (Entry 1 of 2)
        1a: showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
        her ingenuous thirst for experience
        — Christopher Rawson
        b: lacking craft or subtlety
        ingenuous in their brutality
        2obsolete : NOBLE, HONORABLE

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        For instance this is one of the top google hits (the only one I checked) it adds 1.5 tablespoons of seasoned salt to 1.5 lbs of ground beef

        No, it's 1.5 teaspoons. Tbsp is 3x the size of a tsp, dude.

        So it comes out to 1920 mg of sodium per 1.5 lbs of meat, for 480 mg per patty.

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