Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Fox News
To eat meat or not to eat meat, that is the question. At least, that's what these guys are hoping, because they think they've got the answer … and it's yes on both counts.
It seems the fine folks at St. Louis-based Solae LLC will be serving up the next best thing from the too-good-to-be-true department: the hybrid burger.
But before you start drooling on yourself, lost entirely in lusty fantasies about previously impossible gut-busting combinations of your favorite foods, know this: the hybrid burger is — brace yourself — healthy.
As many health food connoisseurs will tell you, previous attempts at a healthy burger have frequently involved a meatless soy-based patty — which often leaves waistline-conscious eaters with a bad taste in their mouths … literally.
But Solae's patented invention SoleCina promises a carefully concocted combination of soy and real meat that tastes like the real thing — but with a fraction of the calories and fat, the Associated Press reports.
And it's been in the works for a decade.
"You would be hard-pressed to take a look at this product and have any idea it's anything other than what you're used to in a cutlet, a flank steak, that type of product," Jonathan McIntyre, Solae's vice president of research and development, said. "You get the chewiness and mouth-feel quality."
And while skeptics might turn their noses up at a burger stripped of the power to expand one's pants, McInyre hopes his hybrid will lead the health conscious will agree that nothing says burger like ... um ... "chewiness and mouth-feel quality."
Products using SoleCina are expected to be on the market by the end of the year.
Fox News
To eat meat or not to eat meat, that is the question. At least, that's what these guys are hoping, because they think they've got the answer … and it's yes on both counts.
It seems the fine folks at St. Louis-based Solae LLC will be serving up the next best thing from the too-good-to-be-true department: the hybrid burger.
But before you start drooling on yourself, lost entirely in lusty fantasies about previously impossible gut-busting combinations of your favorite foods, know this: the hybrid burger is — brace yourself — healthy.
As many health food connoisseurs will tell you, previous attempts at a healthy burger have frequently involved a meatless soy-based patty — which often leaves waistline-conscious eaters with a bad taste in their mouths … literally.
But Solae's patented invention SoleCina promises a carefully concocted combination of soy and real meat that tastes like the real thing — but with a fraction of the calories and fat, the Associated Press reports.
And it's been in the works for a decade.
"You would be hard-pressed to take a look at this product and have any idea it's anything other than what you're used to in a cutlet, a flank steak, that type of product," Jonathan McIntyre, Solae's vice president of research and development, said. "You get the chewiness and mouth-feel quality."
And while skeptics might turn their noses up at a burger stripped of the power to expand one's pants, McInyre hopes his hybrid will lead the health conscious will agree that nothing says burger like ... um ... "chewiness and mouth-feel quality."
Products using SoleCina are expected to be on the market by the end of the year.