Nothing makes me cringe more than hearing someone say "nothing is impossible," but when it comes to vegan food options for meat and dairy products, the saying holds true. Ironically, Impossible Foods is proving this on the reg—previously with its meatless Impossible Burger that can be found at Burger King, and soon...with fishless fish.
Wild, I know. But not in the "caught fresh from the lake"-type of wild, obviously. Impossible Foods, the company dedicated to creating plant-based options for meat and dairy products, is "developing alternatives to traditional seafood with plant-based recipes or laboratory techniques that allow scientists to grow fish from cells," the New York Times reports.
Through research, the company found that heme protein (the same type found in their "meat" formula) can be used to reproduce the flavor of fish, so eventually, the fishless fish alternatives to, well, eating fish could taste just as good as the real deal. Except the "faux fish" won't cause the health problems many believe are linked to eating fish nor will it have any negative environmental impacts.
To take it a step further, Impossible Foods won't stop until they have found delicious plant-based replacements for every animal-based food out there. Their goal? To have it all done by 2035. Sure, that's only 15.5 years from now, but considering the amount of progress they've already made, they could very well meat meet that goal.
While we await the arrival of the Impossible Tuna (?), though, let us recall that 2019's Impossible Burger is reportedly "tastier, juicier, and better than ever," so once the fish version comes out, I'm hopeful it will be as tasty.
