One KFC real meat extra crispy chicken tender has 140 calories and seven grams of fat. How does its Beyond Fried Chicken compare?
The colonel’s secret recipe has gone meatless. Kentucky Fried Chicken is selling fake fried chicken at one of its Atlanta locations to test customer demand, the latest instance of a fast-food restaurant partnering with plant-based protein maker Beyond Meat BYND, +0.32%.
‘For your health, it’s kind of a wash, but for the planet, and for our children’s future, it’s a huge win.’ —Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition, Center for Science in the Public Interest KFC and its parent company, Yum! Brands YUM, -0.08%, did not respond to a request for information comparing nutrition facts for KFC’s Beyond Chicken nuggets and boneless wings to the meat versions.
Beyond Meat and Impossible Burger products are “highly-processed,” they noted, so they may lack the nutrients that are naturally present in plant foods. They’re also higher in saturated fat than minimally processed plant-based protein sources such as beans and lentils. Is ‘processed’ a dirty word? “Critics of plant-based meat like to say that these products are “highly processed” — a term that’s often naively applied to food pejoratively,” said Impossible Foods spokeswoman Rachel Konrad. But she noted that “virtually every food we eat, whether prepared by a chef at a “farm to table” restaurant or in our own homes, involves combining a select set of ingredients and processing them through dehydration, grinding, fermentation, blending or cooking.
The environmental benefits of fake meats may even outweigh the nutritional concerns, said Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. The impact on wallets Another factor is the cost of faux meats, especially at fast-food restaurants. MarketWatch crunched the numbers and found that the fake meat menu items at Burger King QSR, +0.19% , White Castle and Del Taco TACO, +1.09% were all more expensive than their animal-derived counterparts. KFC’s Beyond Chicken nuggets are available in six or 12-piece combo meals for $6.49 and $8.49, or a la carte with four pieces for $1.99.
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