Strikes me here that the word “processed” just gets bent to prove a point about these specific foods. The main issue with it is it’s a pretty high-fat food. That’s a given, since its whole purpose is to emulate a burger. Anyone who’s eating any kind of “burger” that’s not a full blown veggie burger on a regular basis should cut it out. As for burgers in general, you’re probably marginally better off with pea/rice protein + canola/coconut oil than beef, though something like that doesn’t have like a blinking green neon scientific proof behind it.

Not a brand but restaurants or homemade. Lot of different ways to do it but that’s like a master cooking class in itself.

1000 to 1 you just haven’t had a good one.

Water, pea protein*, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein, natural flavors, dried yeast, cocoa butter, methylcellulose, and less than 1% of potato starch, salt, potassium chloride, beet juice color, apple extract, pomegranate concentrate, sunflower lecithin, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, vitamins and minerals (zinc sulfate, niacinamide [vitamin B3], pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin B6], cyanocobalamin [vitamin B12], calcium pantothenate).

Really tame list of ingredients tbph. All the scary sounding ones are vitamins. Burgers on the other hand loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat, and might have all kinds of shit like antibiotics to boot. Just because “beef” is “one ingredient” doesn’t mean it’s not full of toxic chemicals.