Summer learning journey teaser Day 5 activity 2

Activity 2: Impossible Burgers

Who enjoys a delicious beef burger? How about a juicy steak on the BBQ? Many people in New Zealand enjoy eating meat, however, about 10% of New Zealanders are vegetarian. Vegetarians don’t eat any meat or meat products. Instead, most vegetarian food comes from plant-based products.

Pat Brown is the founder of Impossible Foods - a company that makes food (“meat”) from plants. They have discovered a way to genetically engineer plants to form a product that tastes, looks, smells and feels like meat. Pretty amazing ‘eh?!

Let’s look at the nutritional facts for two of the burgers made by the Impossible Foods company - the New Impossible Burger and the Original Impossible Burger.

1. The new Impossible burger has less calories than the original Impossible Burger.
2. The new Impossible burger has 70% less of the daily value of saturated fat than the original Impossible Burger.
3. The new Impossible burger has 25% less of the daily value of sodium than the original Impossible Burger.