How Impossible Meat is Actually Made

So what is Impossible Meat actually made of? When it comes to creating vegetarian meat substitutes, flavor is only one hurdle—smell and texture are also major factors, and scientists have been making breakthroughs on creating a convincing meatless meat experience. For this episode of SciShow, we have our hosts do a blind taste test, to see if they can tell the difference between real and fake meat! Join us! Get your first audiobook and 2Audible originals free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/scishow or text ‘scishow’ to 500 500! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Chapter 6 “Umami flavour of meat” by J. A. Maga. Flavor of Meat and Meat Products F. Shahidi (ed.), Chapman & Hall 1994 Nonmeat Protein Alternatives as Meat Extenders and Meat Analogs by Md. Ali Asgar et al. published in Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, August 2010 https://impossiblefoods.com/burgerking/ https://www.wired.com/2002/04/a-mushrooming-quorn-controversy/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Satish_Kumar94/publication/305317336_Meat_Analogues_Plant_based_alternatives_to_meat_products-_A_review/links/5787c35008aecf56ebcb51ff/Meat-Analogues-Plant-based-alternatives-to-meat-products-A-review.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gGrUNvZt0_YC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=tofu+history&ots=IJjiMOy6F8&sig=6pA2T5oeN4NXALWxRyUJBanbK0Q#v=onepage&q=tofu%20history&f=false https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950329315000117 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950329311000176 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21315123 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4827462/ http://www.chemistry.wustl.edu/~edudev/LabTutorials/CourseTutorials/Tutorials/Hemoglobin/heme.htm https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/dining/04curi.html https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1471015313001451 https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/00346659910277650?journalCode=nfs https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/21/482322571/silicon-valley-s-bloody-plant-burger-smells-tastes-and-sizzles-like-meat https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/entry/IPR001032 https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/looks-fishy-tastes-fishy-but-wheres-the-fish/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/01/23/379124798/will-environmentalists-fall-for-faux-fish-made-from-plants https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/87559129009540887?journalCode=lfri20 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262566133_Taste_producing_components_in_fish_and_fisheries_products_A_review https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15819485 http://prdupl02.ynet.co.il/ForumFiles_2/29465332.pdf http://library.open.oregonstate.edu/aandp/chapter/10-2-skeletal-muscle/ http://library.open.oregonstate.edu/aandp/chapter/10-8-smooth-muscle-tissue/ https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2016/3182746/ https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/00070701311331490 https://slate.com/technology/2012/07/beyond-meat-fake-chicken-that-tastes-so-real-it-will-freak-you-out.html https://aaccipublications.aaccnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/CFW-62-4-0148 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6399/eaam5324 https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/16761/RyanRoberts2013.pdf?sequence=1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269915X04001089 https://repositori.udl.cat/bitstream/handle/10459.1/65632/024578.pdf;jsessionid=13128F49 ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haem-B-3D-vdW.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nitrogen-fixing_nodules_in_the_roots_of_legumes..JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blausen_0801_SkeletalMuscle.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skeletal_muscle_%E6%A8%AA%E7%BA%B9%E8%82%8C1.JPG