False-meat burgers for diet.
What is a health-conscious burger lover to do? The real burger tends to have too many calories and too much fat, but meatless burgers seem to lack the flavor and consistency of real beef.
St. Louis-based Solae LLC has come up with a solution called SoleCina that involves both the process and the ingredients to produce either a "hybrid" meat - part soy, part real meat - or a completely meatless food that tastes like chicken, beef, pork, or turkey.
The company said both versions taste and feel to the mouth much like real meat, but are much healthier. For example, a hybrid burger dubbed the "Better Burger" by Solae has two-third the calories and half the fat and saturated fat as a burger of comparable size.
Solae is a food innovation company that specializes in soy protein. The company has made soy-based ingredients found in hundreds of grocery store products, including food bars, beverages, snacks, and meatless alternatives.
Soy is the only plant-based protein with a protein quality equal to that of meat, milk, and eggs. It is also rich in iron and vitamin B, and is cholesterol free, said Jonathan McIntyre, Solae's vice president of research and development.
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