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Critics Challenge the Health Benefits of Alternative Meats
- Competing PR blitzes over nutrition and processing claims
- Some shun meat mimickers because they’re not ‘whole’ foods
First, there were plants. Then came plant-based products, like tempeh, made from fermented soybeans, and veggie burgers, mash-ups of vegetables and legumes.
Those days seem so innocent and uncomplicated. Now the world is grappling with the Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger craze, which has made investors giddy and spurred the health police to ask uncomfortable questions. Aren’t the products that look and taste like actual meat just the latest suspect offerings from the processed-food complex?