Comment by kleiba

6 days ago

Let me assure you that you're in the vast minority if you add little or no salt at all to your home-made burger patties.

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iinnPP  6 days ago

I was going to edit the comment with this but in Canada we have a company called Metro(grocer) and they often sell 4x fresh beef patties for ~$4 which is 1lb(454g) of ground beef and exactly nothing else.

It's good to eat sans salt on bbq with your desired (typically salty) toppings.

I know people salt the patty while cooking, but the topic at hand is Beyond and their patties.

  • Arainach  6 days ago

    ....which should be compared against other premade patties and how people make and serve beef patties, not against the theoretical option that people could choose to omit salt.

    The whole "salt" angle is bikeshedding - no one advocated Beyond for salt, they pick it for all of the other health benefits (fats, cholesterol)

    • iinnPP  6 days ago

      Salt, among the ingredients in the average burger is the most likely to cause you problems. Calling it bikeshedding is a massive stretch. In a talk of the importance of the contents of your diet related only to burgers, salt is the exact opposite of bikeshedding.

      Nothing whatsoever is stopping Beyond from removing salt and allowing people to salt their own burgers, as they already do.

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Jensson  6 days ago

Still meat is very low sodium, it is weird to say plant based alternatives have less sodium since both have as much salt as you add since there is almost none naturally.

  • kleiba  6 days ago

    But then you're comparing apples an oranges: meat is low in sodium in its unprocessed form, but so are all the ingredients of the plant-based alternative before adding salt.

    What matters is not so much the natural form, it is how the product is typically consumed.

    But of course I see your point that with home made meat-based patties, you are in control of how much salt you want to add, while with factory made patties, you have to take what you get, it's typically not possible to "take away" salt. Mind you, though, the latter argument holds for both plant-based and meat-based factory-made patties.

    • butlike  6 days ago

      The difference is you CAN'T get Beyond meat to make patties without preservative-levels of sodium. You CAN get ground beef and make patties without preservative-levels of sodium.