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I'd be curious to know which ingredients are the most worrisome. I don't eat much Beyond or Impossible at this point, but I could see myself eating a lot in the future if they made lower-fat options (more like ground turkey than ground beef).

But I don't want to eat something that is made out of unhealthy ingredients. What should I look out for?

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Three good reads to start:

1. Primer on ultra processed foods: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-are-ultra-processed...

2. NOVA “the food classification that categorises foods according to the extent and purpose of food processing, rather than in terms of nutrients” [PDF]: http://archive.wphna.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WN-2016-...

3. ‘Ultra-processed foods and added sugars in the US diet: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study’: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/3/e009892

Seed oils. See Dr. Cate Shanahan.

Better than animal fat

That's just wrong. Inform yourself on the history of where the saturated fat scare comes from and the disastrous consequences on global health.

Animal fats are great. One of the staples of healthy human diets for hundreds of thousands of years.

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