How can they make “vegan meat” that’s made of plants taste and feel so much like real meat?

Question

How can they make “vegan meat” that’s made of plants taste and feel so much like real meat?

In: Biology

Answer 1

vegan meat has been a thing forever and was just squishy soy. The recent really exciting thing is they have figured out that “tastes like meat” meant “tastes like blood” and someone figured out how to make yeast produce ‘heme’ which is the part of blood that tastes like anything. Mix that in with a little effort in making fats that feel more like animal fat than plant oil and you have some fake hamburgers that taste a lot like a hamburger.