Well, for example, a large Whopper meal, the Whopper itself is 627 calories, a 180-gram serving of large fries would be 437 calories, and a large Coke would be 209 calories.

There are 450 calories in a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger.

A Happy Meal with a hamburger, small fries and an orange juice comes out at 595 calories. However, having a cheeseburger can raise the calorie count. A Happy Meal with a cheeseburger, small fries and an orange juice comes out at 646 calories.

The Big Mac has 550 calories and 29 grams of fat while the Whopper has 630 calories and 35 grams of fat.

The Impossible Whopper contains 630 calories. That’s not a small number for a single meal, but it is less than the original Whopper’s — excuse the pun — whopping 660 calories.

A plain Whopper with no bun has 240 calories, 18 grams of fat, no carbs, and 20 grams of protein.

In a culture where red meat is often a target of healthy eating campaigns, it’s easy to forget that plants can produce fat, too — a lot of it. A gram of either coconut or sunflower oil contains about nine calories, and the Impossible Whopper contains 34 grams of fat. That means about half its calories are fat-derived.

The Healthiest Frozen Foods in the Supermarket: Veggie Burgers

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• Amy’s California Veggie Burger.
• Boca All American Flame Grilled Meatless Burgers.
• Trader Joe’s Pizza Veggie Burgers with Tomato Basil and Mozzarella Cheese.
• MorningStar Farms Spicy Indian Veggie Burgers.
• MorningStar Farms Roasted Garlic & Quinoa Burgers.

For the Impossible Burger, however, it is created in a lab. Heme, which makes the Impossible Burger “bleed” and appear pink in the middle, is the “magic ingredient” that enables the product to satisfy meat lovers’ cravings, according to Impossible Foods.

Background on Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods For example, Impossible Foods states that their burger uses 75% less water and 95% less land, and generates 87% less greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional burgers made from beef. While Beyond Meat claims that their products use 99% less water and 93% less land.

The product, which feels oddly sticky when you work with it, has less moisture than real ground beef. That means that here, more than ever, the burgers should be cooked to medium-rare or medium, never well done. Don’t let your Impossible burger hit the well-done zone.

Like beef from cows, Impossible Burger can be overcooked. We recommend cooking it to medium and slightly browned.

The ingredient is also referred to as genetically engineered “heme,” soy leghemoglobin. It is the color additive Impossible Foods uses to make its plant-based burger appear to “bleed” as if it were beef. The GE heme is a color additive preparation that also contains more than a dozen yeast proteins.