Court rules Impossible Foods can use 'heme' to make burgers 'taste like meat'
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Impossible Foods plant-based burger product is shown in "We Are Meat" campaign. Photo courtesy of Impossible Foods
May 4 (UPI) -- A federal appeals court has ruled Impossible Foods can use "heme," a color additive, which the company says makes its plant-based burgers taste like meat.
The court in San Francisco upheld Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision to approve soy leghemoglobin as a color additive in Impossible Foods plant-based burgers, Bloomberg reported.
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Impossible Foods has marketed the genetically engineered soy protein as containing heme, an iron-containing molecule that helps its plants-based burgers "taste like meat," by filling craving for iron.