Fake meat… This time it’s pork

Impossible Pork is a new product released by Impossible Food during CES 2020. Unlike the Impossible Sausage, which was announced in the spring of 2019, it is supposed to be used in a dish to replace finely ground pork. There are many dishes that use minced pork, such as meat dumplings and mapo tofu. Impossible Pork does not contain gluten or animal hormones. Therefore, it can be used as an ingredient for halal food eaten by Muslims or kosher food eaten by Jews.

The taste of Impossible Pork is said to be close to real pork. The chewy taste is small, but if cooked with other ingredients, it will not bother you at all. While making Impossible Meat, the Impossible Food side thoroughly investigates the taste to make Impossible Meat more light than that of livestock, and considers the effect of seasoning with spices, etc. on the aroma, to reproduce the texture and unique flavor of the parts of the scaffold that are not found in beef with a simple taste. It is said to have focused.

However, the basic manufacturing method of Impossible Food was made with the same technology as the existing Impossible Meat, and the leghemoglobin ingredient is an important key to creating a meaty taste. Change from cow to pig does not change this. It was changed from beef to pork depending on the concentration or balance of amino acids, sugars and lipids, which are other nutrients.

One of the reasons Impossible Foods developed counterfeit pork is the rising consumption of pork in Asia, especially in China. Hamburgers using Impossible Meat have already started to be served in Singapore, Macau, and Shanghai, and the development of pork is considered important in order to expand the region or scale of serving. In addition, the expansion of the supply of fake vegetable meat can contribute to improving environmental and health problems caused by meat consumption.

The artificial meat industry aims to provide all types of meat with vegetable substitutes while realistically reproducing taste and texture. Impossible Foods and other companies are likely to supply enough fake chicken and fish.

Rachel Conrad, CCO of Impossible Foods, wants to break the word that food development has nothing to do with science and technology, but emphasized that making food is the most familiar and important skill in life. Impossible Fork is expected to start supplying the food service industry in late 2020.

Meanwhile, Impossible Food officially launched Impossible Sausage, which was announced in 2019. In the United States, test sales will begin in late January at 139 Burger King stores in five states, Georgia, Michigan, Illinois, New Mexico, and Alabama. Burger King sells a product (Impossible Croissan’wich) that replaces the Croissan’wich sausage with an Impossible product. Burger King last year tested and sold Impossible Wafers using Impossible Meat. Related information can be found here .