Burger King's veggie burger

Lovehealthfreedom
Lovehealthfreedom Posts: 9 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Is the veggie burger from burger King actually healthy? I heard its from the morning star brand. Its freaken delicious.

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  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    A standard whopper is 660 calories. The veggie burger whopper is 630 calories, so no I wouldn't consider it to be a healthier option. Plus it's cooked on the same grill as the meat, unless ask for it to be microwaved.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,122 Member
    It's really more of a question whether one's overall diet is healthy, not whether one individual food is healthy, IMO.

    If your day needs the macros/micros in the veggie whopper to fill out complete nutrition, and it fits in what's left of your calorie goal, then in that context, it's reasonably healthy. Its nutritional breakdown is actually pretty close to the standard meat whopper. I don't think it's meaningfully healthier than the meat whopper, personally.

    If you're short on nutrients that the veggie whopper can't give you, or you don't have enough calories to fit it in, then in that context it isn't healthy.

    Personally, I've found I enjoy mostly eating simple foods that people have eaten for centuries/millennia, not for any quasi-religious reason about "cleanness" or "wholeness", but because that's what I mostly find tasty and satisfying. I do eat some highly-processed foods, too. (I mostly want to get overall well-rounded nutrition.)

    I've been vegetarian for 45+ years, but I'm not at all enthusiastic about the new whopper. For one, I didn't much like meat in the first place, so something that tastes like it isn't really all that appealing. For two, like I said, I mostly prefer simpler foods, so even if I were a meat eater, the whopper wouldn't be my go-to (that, even though I consider a ground-beef patty a less processed and more time-tested food than the veggie patty).

    If you like the veggie whopper, and it both fits in your calories and contributes enough to your nutritional goals to be worth those calories, then I don't see why you wouldn't go ahead and eat it.
  • angelexperiment
    angelexperiment Posts: 1,917 Member
    If you get it without the bun you cut calories a lot. 240 without. Which is the same as say an impossible burger, or fresh farms. It’s not vegan, but vegetarian yes. It has egg. And soy ( if you are watching soy) it also has heme which is a molecule to make it bleed 🩸 like some of these newer veg burgers have
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    angelexperiment wrote: »
    If you get it without the bun you cut calories a lot. 240 without. Which is the same as say an impossible burger, or fresh farms. It’s not vegan, but vegetarian yes. It has egg. And soy ( if you are watching soy) it also has heme which is a molecule to make it bleed 🩸 like some of these newer veg burgers have

    What Morningstar burger has heme?

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