Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA

Enlarge / A meatless Impossible Burger, now with a dash of FDA acceptance. (credit: Impossible Foods | Giselle Guerrero)

The chic, plant-based Impossible Burger that browns and "bleeds" like the real thing just got a little more possible.

On Monday July 23, the company behind the meatless meat, Impossible Foods, announced that the Food and Drug Administration had finally accepted its latest application to consider the burger's key ingredient safe to eat. The final nod puts that ingredient-dubbed soy leghemoglobin-firmly in the regulatory category of "generally recognized as safe," or GRAS.

That's comforting news for those of us already chowing down on the faux patties, which are currently being fried up in nearly 3,000 restaurants in the US and Hong Kong. Until now, the burgers had flipped into a regulatory gray zone.

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