Food Science and Nutrition Chair Talks ‘Meatless Meat’ on Chicago Tonight

Ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Britt Burton-Freeman, chair of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at Illinois Institute of Technology, was a guest on the Chicago Tonight television program on May 21 to discuss alternatives to meat, or “meatless meat.”

“The alternative meats we’re talking about tonight are plant-based, and they’re made of a variety of ingredients that come from plants,” Burton-Freeman says during the segment that aired on Chicago’s PBS affiliate WTTW. “Some of them will have a yeast extract, but essentially they’ve actually been assembled to look just like meat, taste just like meat, smell like meat, and you can throw them on the grill.”

Burton-Freeman, who is also an associate professor of food science and nutrition in the School of Applied Technology and the director of the Center for Nutrition Research, discussed the nutritional aspects related to these products.

To view the entire segment, you can go to the WTTW website.