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“a bean-based burger with nearly double the Healthy Eating Index score of the Big Mac and roughly one-sixth of its environmental impact”
researchers, npj Science of Food
Same study; authors acknowledge participants "rated it lower for taste and texture," the persistent barrier to adoption.
In the brief: AI generates a million burger recipes and finds a mushroom version that beats the Big Mac on environmental impact → vegconomist the vegan business magazine →
“a mushroom-based burger...achieved an environmental impact score more than ten times lower than a conventional Big Mac reference burger”
researchers, npj Science of Food
Published in a Nature portfolio peer-reviewed journal; LCA methodology and sensory data publicly available; limits include a single-city taste panel and LCA assumptions not independently replicated.
In the brief: AI generates a million burger recipes and finds a mushroom version that beats the Big Mac on environmental impact → vegconomist the vegan business magazine →
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