<story><title>Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/impossible-foods-just-raised-75-million-for-its-plant-based-burgers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>And msg is generally considered safe these days?</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Most burgers are improved with MSG, it is a miracle salt.</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>I tried the Impossible Meats burger - it was nowhere near as tasty as a beef burger. I think it could be improved drastically by just adding a little MSG tho.</text></item><item><author>L_Rahman</author><text>I remember reading the original impressions of the Impossible Foods ground meat and thinking it was just media buzz.&lt;p&gt;I promise you it is not.&lt;p&gt;At Momofuku&amp;#x27;s Ssam Bar in the East Village of NYC, you can order an off menu item called Spicy Pork Sausage and Rice Cakes. It&amp;#x27;s not really off the menu - the item has simply been around so long and is so well known to regulars that they left it off to make room for new dishes.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had it more times than I count.&lt;p&gt;At lunch time however, they serve Spicy &amp;quot;Impossible Sausage&amp;quot; and Rice Cakes. The first time I ordered it, I was ready to complain about one of my favorite things ruined by a hyped product.&lt;p&gt;But then I took my first bite, and it somehow tasted better than the pork sausage version. I&amp;#x27;ve been back many times since and the Impossible Foods version of the dish is often tastier than the pork version.&lt;p&gt;Let that sink in for a moment. Impossible Foods was able to replace high quality pork sausage served in a beloved dish at one of New York&amp;#x27;s buzziest restaurants and make the dish better.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of ground meat in the American food chain is of lower quality. If Impossible Foods can replace that ground meat at scale, the ramifications are enormous. They will reduce by a huge margin the number of animal lives and quantity of CO2 necessary to feed us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>entee</author><text>MSG is Monosodium Glutamate, the sodium salt of glutamate. Glutamate is an amino acid common in food, I assure you you eat tons of glutamate on a daily basis. There&amp;#x27;s nothing inherently unsafe about it, and your body knows exactly what to do with it. In fact, your body is literally made with it.&lt;p&gt;That said glutamate is a neurotransmitter, so yeah you probably shouldn&amp;#x27;t inject large quantities or anything.</text></comment>
<story><title>Impossible Foods has raised $75M for its plant-based burgers</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/01/impossible-foods-just-raised-75-million-for-its-plant-based-burgers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrfusion</author><text>And msg is generally considered safe these days?</text></item><item><author>mmanfrin</author><text>Most burgers are improved with MSG, it is a miracle salt.</text></item><item><author>acchow</author><text>I tried the Impossible Meats burger - it was nowhere near as tasty as a beef burger. I think it could be improved drastically by just adding a little MSG tho.</text></item><item><author>L_Rahman</author><text>I remember reading the original impressions of the Impossible Foods ground meat and thinking it was just media buzz.&lt;p&gt;I promise you it is not.&lt;p&gt;At Momofuku&amp;#x27;s Ssam Bar in the East Village of NYC, you can order an off menu item called Spicy Pork Sausage and Rice Cakes. It&amp;#x27;s not really off the menu - the item has simply been around so long and is so well known to regulars that they left it off to make room for new dishes.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had it more times than I count.&lt;p&gt;At lunch time however, they serve Spicy &amp;quot;Impossible Sausage&amp;quot; and Rice Cakes. The first time I ordered it, I was ready to complain about one of my favorite things ruined by a hyped product.&lt;p&gt;But then I took my first bite, and it somehow tasted better than the pork sausage version. I&amp;#x27;ve been back many times since and the Impossible Foods version of the dish is often tastier than the pork version.&lt;p&gt;Let that sink in for a moment. Impossible Foods was able to replace high quality pork sausage served in a beloved dish at one of New York&amp;#x27;s buzziest restaurants and make the dish better.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of ground meat in the American food chain is of lower quality. If Impossible Foods can replace that ground meat at scale, the ramifications are enormous. They will reduce by a huge margin the number of animal lives and quantity of CO2 necessary to feed us.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmcgough</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s ben heavily studied for decades and the whole msg scare has no science to back it up. It&amp;#x27;s possible that some people have a sensitivity to MSG, but for &amp;gt;99.99÷ of the population, it&amp;#x27;s completely safe.&lt;p&gt;I buy shakers of it, it can be delicious in some meals.</text></comment>