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This is anecdotal but having worked in a couple of kitchens I've been surprised at how well veggie burgers sell. I've never tried them myself but apparently they taste pretty good.

Veggie burgers, and the slightly more specific black bean burger, are fantastic little bites that give you protein without making you feel as heavy or full as a normal burger. Im not even a vegetarian and i love the things. Take a frozen veggie or black bean patty- throw it in the microwave for two minutes, then into a tortilla with some hummus, feta, and your choice of chopped veggies and you have a healthy high protein big snack or light meal that wont bloat you up. My go-to for busy evenings.

I think they succeed because they're not trying to be a meat substitute, they're something else delicious.

you have a healthy high protein snack or light meal.

I can kind of squint an agree with you, but only just barely.

Black bean burgers are mostly carbs. They're above average in protein, but I wouldn't say they're high (especially not when compared to animal proteins). And they're low in fat.

Every human needs some mix of carbs, protein, and fat to survive and feel good. The zero carber types are as wrong as the zero/low fat types are as wrong as the vegans (low protein. Close to impossible to get necessary protein on a strict Vegan diet).

I worry that a lot of people aren't actually checking the nutrition facts of black bean / veggie burgers and thinking that they are somehow nutritionally identical to actual meat. They aren't and eating a lot of them would create the kind of hyper carbohydrate nutrition profile that can lead to one of many metabolic syndromes.

I find the food industry in the U.S. to be one of the more cynical industries out there. At their core, they're just going to sell what people want, which is mostly junk that our lizard brains haven't learned to not like yet. But the cynicism comes in in how they constantly find new ways to re-package the same basic slip into various "healthy" versions - aided and abetted by the nutritional-fad-diet industrial complex. Off hand, I can remember Adkins, Keto, Carnivore, and the 20+ year "low fat" diets.

I read the labels of coconut and almond "milk" recently, and realized they're literally just flavored carb-water. At least soy milk has a bit of protein in it.

Hmm, now that you point it out i didnt realize how bad the macros are on black bean burgers specifically, like you say its majority carbohydrates. Well, good to know.

My usual choice of veggie burgers includes lots of nuts in the make-up, so its a pretty much even 33% carbs/fat/protein calorie distribution, for about 125 calories total, im pretty happy with that mix for my normal eating habits. Add 1 tablespoon of hummus, maybe twice that in feta with some chopped veggies in a whole wheat or spinnach tortilla overall works quite well, dont have the exact macros to hand but i did calculate them and was very satisfied with the results.

They are really good with bacon & cheese especially -- but yeah, I will actually eat those black bean ones if we have some leftover.

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