Early Jul 14, 2026
“a plant-based mushroom burger with an environmental impact score more than 90 percent lower than a McDonald's Big Mac”
Stanford researchers, published in npj Science of Food
Peer-reviewed, but built from a model trained on 2,216 existing recipes and validated with a small taste-test panel rather than a market trial.
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