"they're lower in sodium and saturated fat than your average hamburger patty"

If you buy a Beyond patty, it has way more sodium than ground beef you'd buy at a grocerty store. Comparing it with a fast food burger isn't really fair.

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carlmr an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>it has way more sodium than ground beef you'd buy at a grocerty store

We're not comparing fairly here. A finished hamburger patty is not pure ground beef. Did you ever make a hamburger patty yourself? You add salt and spices at a minimum.

A more fair comparison would be looking at store-bought hamburger patties. That's the same category of food.

I just compared Beyond (0.75g salt per 100g) and block house American Burger (0.88g per 100g). The patties are somewhat similar in weight, too (113g and 125g). So both in absolute, and weight relative amounts the Beyond burger has less sodium.

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Intermernet 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can make an awesome burger pattie with beef, onion, garlic, a touch of finely chopped jalapeno and some herbs and spices etc. You don't need to add salt.

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mikkupikku 31 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have made burgers hundreds if not thousands of times and I have never done more than roll ground beef into a ball ans squish it flat. Salt and spices are completely unnecessarily, who am I, Gordon Ramsey? Sliced onion on top of the patty does plenty of work.

	▲	eeixlk 4 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You are comparing a prepared product to a raw ingredient. Raw beef is pretty boring which is why every single restaurant add some combination of salt, pepper, mayo, ketchup, mustard, oil, butter, gochujang, etc to make it into food. If you want to convince the world to eat unseasoned beef and onion burgers be my guest but you have a tougher hill to climb than the vegetarians. Eat what makes you happy, but maybe acknowledge it's not actual cooking.

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iinnPP 35 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You don't need salt and spices to make a burger, it can be 100% beef with no additives. A pinch of salt can be like 0.3g/burger and you're fine as well.

I don't eat that these days, my burgers are actually 25% beef and 75% lentil/seasoning. Still under 0.5g/100g

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kleiba 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

Let me assure you that you're in the vast minority if you add little or no salt at all to your home-made burger patties.

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iinnPP 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I was going to edit the comment with this but in Canada we have a company called Metro(grocer) and they often sell 4x fresh beef patties for ~$4 which is 1lb(454g) of ground beef and exactly nothing else.

It's good to eat sans salt on bbq with your desired (typically salty) toppings.

I know people salt the patty while cooking, but the topic at hand is Beyond and their patties.

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Jensson 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Still meat is very low sodium, it is weird to say plant based alternatives have less sodium since both have as much salt as you add since there is almost none naturally.

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kleiba 14 minutes ago | parent [-]

But then you're comparing apples an oranges: meat is low in sodium in its unprocessed form, but so are all the ingredients of the plant-based alternative before adding salt.

What matters is not so much the natural form, it is how the product is typically consumed.

But of course I see your point that with home made meat-based patties, you are in control of how much salt you want to add, while with factory made patties, you have to take what you get, it's typically not possible to "take away" salt. Mind you, though, the latter argument holds for both plant-based and meat-based factory-made patties.

	▲	iinnPP 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Beyond sells a ground beef substitute which has about 3x as much sodium as lean ground beef.

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mcdonje an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You're comparing a burger patty to a burger ingredient. Two different things. Not a reasonable comparison.

	▲	iinnPP 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A burger can be made from that solitary ingredient though.

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ccppurcell 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've never eaten a beyond burger or anything like that at home. At home the improvement in flavour over tofu or just beans isn't worth it. I can get flavour from herbs spices and other ingredients. I've only ever eaten beyond burgers at restaurants.

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kulahan 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really - every single Burger King out there sells the beyond burger as far as I've seen.

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messe 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If they're selling in a supermarket, it's more than fair to compare them to those offerings.

Who's buying Burger King more than grocery shopping?

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AlecSchueler 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I've eaten maybe 5 burgers at home in my 35 years but I've eaten plenty more at fast food restaurants.

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messe 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And I've eaten far more at home than out in my 29. It's really not that common to eat out that often where I live.

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AlecSchueler an hour ago | parent [-]

That's fine.

You asked "Who's buying Burger King more than grocery shopping?"

My point was that groceries in general don't matter, only burgers. Some people almost never eat burgers at home and eat them exclusively at places like Burger King.

	▲	messe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's a fair point.