What is HEME?

What is the Impossible Burger and is it 

better for you?

 

 

The students will learn more about red meat 

and plant based burgers.

Did you know...     Heme is an iron-containing compound of the porphyrin class which forms the nonprotein part of hemoglobin and some other biological molecules.

What is heme impossible burger?  When soy leghemoglobin is cooked, it produces heme, the iron-rich compound that gives the "bleeding" veggie burger made by Impossible Foods its signature blood-red color.

Take a close look at the Impossible Burger.
Can you tell the difference?

Classic Beef Burger