[Ads-l] heme, hemeburger

[Ben Zimmer]

"Heme" makes an appearance in Kory Stamper's great Boston Globe piece last
November on futuristic food names...

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https://apps.bostonglobe.com/ideas/graphics/2018/11/the-next-bite/the-marketers/
More familiar are the plant-based meats. The Impossible Burger and Beyond
Burger are two well-known examples, and they are different from the veggie
burgers of yore by acting as close to beef as possible. Both burgers
"bleed" and "sizzle" when cooked and are proclaimed "juicy" when eaten. The
Impossible Burger uses a plant-derived compound called "heme" to make its
burger beef-like; heme is a component of hemoglobin, which is what makes
our blood red. Vegetarians may squirm at marketing materials that use
images of beefy-looking sandwiches - and even of cows, in the Beyond
Burger's case - but perhaps vegetarians aren't the only target.
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On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 1:44 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> “Hemeburger” sounds more like it should refer to a bloodburger.  Yum!
> Does anyone else recall an elementary-school-friendly info movie entitled
> “Hemo the Magnificent”?  Or maybe it was Haemo; I haven’t tried googling.
>  Anyone, it wasn’t about soy.  And when my h(a)emotologist had me
> undergoing phlebotomies, I can tell you no bloody soy-letting was involved.
>
> LH
>
> P.S.  Come to think of it, though, it’s not that distant a route from
> “soy-letting” to Soylent.
>
>
> > On Apr 2, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > 1.
> https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/1/18290762/burger-king-impossible-whopper-plant-based-meat
> <
> https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/1/18290762/burger-king-impossible-whopper-plant-based-meat
> >
> >
> > ——
> > The new beefless burger is a partnership with the startup company
> Impossible Foods, which will supply patties made with heme, a protein
> cultivated from soybean roots that mimics the texture of meat —
> convincingly, by the sounds of it.
> > ——
> >
> > The Wikipedia article on “heme” includes a section about use for food (
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme#Synthesis_for_food <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heme#Synthesis_for_food>).
> >
> > Wiktionary, the English OLD and Merriam-Webster all have entries for
> “heme”, but the definitions are only provided in terms of biochemistry and
> leave the heme-consumer unsatisfied:
> >
> > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heme <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heme
> >
> > The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for
> binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a
> porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one
> molecule of oxygen.
> >
> > https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/haem <
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/haem>
> > An iron-containing compound of the porphyrin class which forms the
> non-protein part of haemoglobin and some other biological molecules.
> >
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heme <
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heme>
> > the deep red iron-containing prosthetic group C34H32N4O4Fe of hemoglobin
> and myoglobin
> >
> > 2. None of those three resources have “hemeburger”.
> >
> >
> https://www.askmen.com/news/sports/burger-king-is-testing-a-vegetarian-burger-called-the-impossible-whopper.html
> <
> https://www.askmen.com/news/sports/burger-king-is-testing-a-vegetarian-burger-called-the-impossible-whopper.html
> >
> > 1 April 2019
> > ——
> > We know what you’re thinking: There’s absolutely no way a heme burger
> can taste the same as a real chunk of meat burger.
> > ——
> >
> > https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-veggie-burgers-with-meaty-ambition <
> https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-veggie-burgers-with-meaty-ambition>
> > 15 Jan 2015
> > ——
> > With millions of dollars backing him, it’s far from impossible that
> you’ll see a heme-burger from Brown in the near future.
> > ——
> >
> > https://www.groupon.com/articles/the-impossible-burger-taste-test <
> https://www.groupon.com/articles/the-impossible-burger-taste-test>
> > 14 May 2018
> > ——
> > So much, in fact, that we decided not to dedicate any more digital space
> to explaining what heme is (spoiler: it comes from soybeans) or analyzing
> the size of a heme burger's carbon footprint.
> > ——
> >
> > Here are four citations of “hemeburger” with no space or hyphen:
> >
> >
> https://www.exposingtruth.com/hemeburger-vegan-burger-that-tastes-and-bleeds-like-meat/
> <
> https://www.exposingtruth.com/hemeburger-vegan-burger-that-tastes-and-bleeds-like-meat/
> >
> > Hemeburger: Vegan Burger That Tastes And Bleeds Like Meat
> > 8 Aug 2015
> >
> >
> https://www.sott.net/article/346105-Impossible-Foods-hemeburger-Meet-the-veggie-burger-that-bleeds
> <
> https://www.sott.net/article/346105-Impossible-Foods-hemeburger-Meet-the-veggie-burger-that-bleeds
> >
> > Impossible Food's 'hemeburger': Meet the veggie burger that bleeds
> > 23 Mar 2017
> >
> >
> http://www.keeleydeangelo.com/index.php/blog/patent-behind-impossible-food-heme
> <
> http://www.keeleydeangelo.com/index.php/blog/patent-behind-impossible-food-heme
> >
> > So it was with considerable trepidation that we finished our hemeburgers
> and started researching Question 2: Is this stuff patented?
> > 19 Sep 2018
> >
> >
> https://gambar.wiki/impossible-foods-the-vegan-burger-that-bleeds-veggie.html
> <
> https://gambar.wiki/impossible-foods-the-vegan-burger-that-bleeds-veggie.html
> >
> > Impossible Food S Hemeburger Meet The Veggie Burger
> > undated
> >
> >

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