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Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-31): On Dec. 20, 2019, the livestock industry publication Tri-State Livestock News published a wide-ranging screed against the Impossible Whopper, the livestock-free substitute burger sold at Burger King. The author of the article, South Dakota veterinarian James Stangle, made a series of dubious assertions to arrive at the conclusion that four Impossible Whoppers per day contain "enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male." For several reasons articulated below, this conclusion is flawed. Strictly speaking, Impossible Burgers, which use soy as their protein, have no estrogen in them whatsoever. Estrogen refers to a group of sex hormones created by an animal’s endocrine system that affect myriad reproductive and other bodily processes. These chemicals, the most significant of which is estradiol, are not found in any plant-based product, including the soy protein of Impossible Whoppers. [...] While the amount of phytoestrogen in an Impossible Whopper does sound terrifyingly massive when compared to the negligible amount of estrogen in beef, the amount present in the Impossible Whopper is not out of line with phytoestrogen consumption in regions of the world that regularly consume large amounts of soy (and have done so safely for centuries). These billions of people provide strong support for the possibility that the one man in Texas’ potentially soy-induced breasts is — to say the least — an outlier.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-02-11): CORRECTION, Jan. 24, 2020: The Western Journal has changed the headline of this article from "Doctor Warns ‘Impossible Burger’ Has 18 Million Times More Estrogen than Whopper" to "Doctor Criticized for Claim that ‘Impossible Burger’ Has 18 Million Times More Estrogen than Whopper" to better reflect the content of the article, which both explains and then largely debunks that claim. We apologize for any confusion the original headline may have caused our readers. [...] a big deal just became a bigger deal. the Impossible Whopper is available nationwide starting 8/8. pic.twitter.com/TpFQenSLFQ — Burger King (@BurgerKing) August 1, 2019 "The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen," he explained. "Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper."
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-24): When AppleEats’s team of tasters sampled Burger King’s Impossible Whopper earlier this year, they declared that the "meat" patty failed to live up to its hype. This might be reason enough to pass on the plant-based burger, but a veterinarian in Milesville, S.D. just provided 18 million better reasons if you’re a man. His name is Dr. James Strangle, and according to claims he made last week in Tri-State Livestock News, the Impossible Whopper may be downright dangerous for men to eat. From the article: … [L]et’s compare the estrogen hormone in an impossible whopper to the whopper made from hormone implanted beef. Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. You would have to eat 880 pounds of beef from an implanted steer to equal the amount of estrogen in one birth control pill. Now, mind you: This is one doctor’s opinion. No corroborating evidence has been published. But any males of the species reading this are advised to at least entertain a moratorium on the Impossible Whopper until more information is in.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-29): James Stangle, a doctor of veterinary medicine in South Dakota, has sounded the alarm on the Impossible Whopper, which, he says, contains so much estrogen that the mock-meat burger could grow breasts on men who wolf down too many of the Burger King sandwiches. In a recent report for Tri-State Livestock News, Stangle crunches some serious numbers. He compares the estrogen levels found in the Impossible Whopper to those in the original Whopper, based on their protein sources (beef for the original, and soy for the plant-based one). The Impossible Whopper, Stangle concludes, has 44 milligrams of estrogen compared to just 2.5 nanograms in the beef Whopper. "Now let me refresh your metric system," Stangle writes. "There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper [sic] has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper [sic]. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male."
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-01-14): A doctor recently broke down the facts behind Burger King’s vegan Impossible Burger, discovering that it may not be a healthier option when it comes to caloric or protein intake, and that it has a whopping 18 million times more phytoestrogen than the regular estrogen found than a standard Whopper. [...] "That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper." [...] He went on to compare the level of phytoestrogen in the Impossible Burger to soy milk, writing that eating four of the vegetable burgers daily would result in a human male growing breasts:
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2024-10-07): Now, let’s compare the estrogen hormone in an impossible whopper to the whopper made from hormone implanted beef. Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. You would have to eat 880 pounds of beef from an implanted steer to equal the amount of estrogen in one birth control pill.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2021-09-10): "You've probably heard of the 'Made 100% from plants'... Well, (the Impossible Burger) contains 44mg of estrogen," reads a tweet shared in an Aug. 26 Facebook post. [...] In the original article, Stangle asserted the 44 mg of estrogen contained in Burger King's Impossible Whopper – which uses the Impossible Foods patty – was "18 million times" greater than the "2.5 (nanograms)" in the regular beef whopper. [...] - NIH National Library of Medicine, accessed Sept. 9, Isoflavone - Iranian Journal of Public Health, Feb. 11, 2015, Hormones in Dairy Foods and Their Impact on Public Health - A Narrative Review Article - Impossible, Aug. 27, Soy: Facts, Myths and Why It's In Our Products - UCSF Transgender Care, June 17, 2016, Overview of feminizing hormone therapy - Hormone Health Network, accessed Sept. 9, Estradiol - Health Feedback, Jan. 10, 2020, Impossible Whopper contains no estrogen; will not lead to men growing breasts if eaten in moderation - AACE Endocrine Practice, May 1, 2008, An Unusual Case of Gynecomastia Associated with Soy Product Consumption - Nutrition Action, Jan. 7, 2015, How to Diet: Does Soy Impact Masculinity?
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-01-12): Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an Impossible Whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular Whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. This claim originated from a news article published in the Tri-State Livestock News on 20 Dec. 2019. Written by doctor of veterinary medicine James Stanger, the article has received more than 4,900 engagements on Facebook, while the claim has circulated in memes which have been viewed more than 10 million times to date. The claim states that the "Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the Whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen", and suggests that eating Impossible Whoppers would cause men to grow breasts. Scientists who evaluated this claim found it to be inaccurate. They explained that estrogen is a hormone produced in mammals, and therefore cannot be found in plant products such as soy-based meat substitutes used in the Impossible Whopper. While plants do contain compounds similar to estrogen—called phytoestrogens, among which are certain isoflavones—which are capable of binding to estrogen receptors in humans, phytoestrogens do not possess the same level of biological activity as estrogen does.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2021-01-12): The Impossible Whopper is a burger with a patty made from plants, including soy, instead of beef. And that's where the issue comes in. He said that the soy in the Impossible burger has 18 Million times more estrogen than regular beef. "The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen," he explained to the Western Journal. "Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper."
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-28): On the Impossible Foods website for Burger King, the company openly admits that Impossible Whoppers are made "mostly" of soy protein, which we previously reported is a testosterone antagonist, especially in men. And according to Stangle – though we haven’t verified this in our own lab – the amount of soy protein and other estrogenic substances in Impossible Whoppers amounts to 44 milligrams (mg) of estrogen per burger, compared to just 2.5 nanograms of estrogen in regular beef. [Editor’s note: We believe this claim of 44 mg of estrogen in one Impossible Whopper is unlikely to be true. However, there is certainly some level of estrogen found in these fake meat patties, and we hope to be able to locate reputable lab tests that are reporting on the levels being found. We could theoretically run these tests in our own lab, but we are currently focused on glyphosate and other herbicides.] [...] The whole thing is an artificial disaster, even if Stangle’s 44 mg estrogen claim turns out to be exaggerated. He’s definitely right about one thing: Impossible Whoppers are not natural, nor are they preferable to real beef, especially grass-fed beef that’s much healthier than its feedlot-based counterparts.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-01-15): Fears about soy products feminizing men have existed for quite a while. The Impossible Burger fear mongering, however, is a bit more recent. It stems from a 2019 story published by Tri-State Livestock News, a trade publication covering livestock agriculture. Written by James Stangle, who specializes in veterinary medicine, the story claims that four Impossible Whoppers a day contain "enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male." That story was then picked up by conversative pundits such as Michael Savage, according to The Washington Post. It seems silly to point out that few people, if any, are buying and consuming four Impossible Whoppers daily. But even if a man did decide to eat Impossible Whoppers for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack between, he needn’t worry about developing feminine secondary sex characteristics. For starters, the compound contained in Impossible Burgers isn’t human estrogen at all—it’s phytoestrogen, a plant isoflavone that acts similarly to human estrogen, but doesn’t have nearly the same strength, according to Insider. Phytoestrogen, which is often found in soy, can promote the effects of naturally occurring estrogen, which exists in all humans. But it can also suppress it, since it has both estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects. How phytoestrogen affects you depends on what your existing estrogen levels are as well as other individual biological factors. Regardless of whether it promotes or decreases the effects of naturally occurring estrogen, however, it still doesn’t have the strength to grow breasts in men.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-20): The impossible whopper is being advertised by Burger King as a plant based alternative to the whopper. When food manufacturers started talking about making artificial meat, I, too, thought it would be impossible to make a hamburger cheaply enough to make it competitive. You see, I assumed that they would have to buy the individual amino acids (the building blocks for protein) and chemically string them together in the proper order, then remove the reagents (chemicals needed to cause the chain reactions) and then add something to give it the right textures [...] The impossible whopper has 630 calories, mostly from the added oils. The whopper has 660 calories. So, about 5% less calories, this is not a huge improvement. [...] Now, let’s compare the estrogen hormone in an impossible whopper to the whopper made from hormone implanted beef. Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. You would have to eat 880 pounds of beef from an implanted steer to equal the amount of estrogen in one birth control pill.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-01-10): Impossible Whopper contains no estrogen; will not lead to men growing breasts if eaten in moderation [...] This claim originated from a news article published in the Tri-State Livestock News on 20 Dec. 2019. Written by doctor of veterinary medicine James Stanger, the article has received more than 4,900 engagements on Facebook, while the claim has circulated in memes which have been viewed more than 10 million times to date. The claim states that the "Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the Whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen", and suggests that eating Impossible Whoppers would cause men to grow breasts. Scientists who evaluated this claim found it to be inaccurate. They explained that estrogen is a hormone produced in mammals, and therefore cannot be found in plant products such as soy-based meat substitutes used in the Impossible Whopper. While plants do contain compounds similar to estrogen—called phytoestrogens, among which are certain isoflavones—which are capable of binding to estrogen receptors in humans, phytoestrogens do not possess the same level of biological activity as estrogen does.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-01-18): Dear men: There's no evidence that eating Impossible Whoppers will give you breasts-The Washington Post [...] TSLN said in an article, 'Impossible Foods' Burger King's' Impossible Whopper ', which uses plant-derived artificial meat, has a 5% reduction in calories and a 11% reduction in protein compared to a regular wpper, but 9 Has the advantage of containing all of the essential amino acids , but estrogen, one of the female hormones, is 18 million times more than a regular wapper. ' According to this article, `` Whipped with normal beef contains only 2.5 ng (nanogram) of estrogen, but the impossible whopper contains 44 mg of estrogen, which is about 18 million times more estrogen 'If you drink six glasses of soy milk every day, you will get enough estrogen to grow male boobs. Eating four Impossible Whoppers will give you the same amount of estrogen. I will take it. '
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-27): Impossible Whopper Estrogen refers to an incorrect claim that the vegetarian Impossible Burger sold by Burger King fast-food chain contains 18 million times more estrogen than the regular Whopper. Published by Tri-State Livestock News on December 20th, 2019, the claim became a popular subject of memes in late December 2019. The memes explored the premise that the burger could stimulate breast growth and gender transition, similar to the Soy Boy memes. On December 20th, 2019, Tri-State Livestock News[1] posted an article written by veterinary doctor James Stangle in which he claimed that the vegetarian Impossible Whopper manufactured by Impossible Foods Inc. and distributed by Burger King contains 44 milligrams of estrogen, which is 18 million times more than 5 nanograms of estrogen in the regular Whopper. In The Washinton Post and in a number of other media,[2][3][4] this information was later proven to be incorrect, with the Tri-State Livestock News article not clarifying that the estrogen found in the Impossible Whopper is phytoestrogen, which has no confirmed effect on testosterone concentrations in men.[5]
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2021-04-17): Will the estrogen in an Impossible Burger grow man boobs? The answer will surprise you! But this whole debate is representative of some serious problems we have with nutrition and health claims. [...] The graphic compares a beef hamburger’s estrogen level to that of the new Impossible Burger. And then states that it is so much estrogen that four burgers a day would cause "male breast growth." [...] So we can see that the actual base of the argument is factual. There is quite a bit more estrogen-like compounds in the Impossible Burger than in the beef hamburger. But now let’s look at the second half of the claim.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2024-01-01): This hormone binds with hundreds of sites throughout the body that have vitamin D receptors, and thereby affects how many of our genes are expressed. [...] Other countries, like the United Kingdom, may provide this number in nanomoles per liter (nmol/L), resulting in a number that is about 2.5 times higher (48 ng is 120 nmol/L). According to the NIH, levels greater than 20 ng/ml are "generally considered adequate for bone and overall health in healthy individuals,"23 but other researchers or advocates, such as the Vitamin D Council, advocate a higher number—50 ng/ml or more.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-29): As first noted by The Washington Post, an article labeled as "news" in the trade publication Tri-State Livestock News claims that eating Burger King’s Impossible Whopper—a new faux-beef menu item—could cause men to grow breasts. [...] The impossible whopper has 44mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5ng of estrogen. Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male. That’s the equivalent of eating four impossible whoppers per day. You would have to eat 880 pounds of beef from an implanted steer to equal the amount of estrogen in one birth control pill. [...] The claim that soy-based foods, like the Impossible Whopper, will "feminize" men is a tired one that has been around for years—and still lacks evidence to back it up.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2020-01-04): Hormone Replacement Therapy "The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen " [...] Sign Up "The impossible whopper has 44 mg of estrogen " [...] "That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper."
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-28): Strangle compares the soy-based Impossible Whopper to the beef Whopper, claiming that the plant-based version has 44 milligrams of estrogen while the original only contains 2.5 nanograms. 'Now let me refresh your metric system. There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper,' he writes. [...] Stangle: 'There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper'
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2019-12-26): James Stangle, a doctor of veterinary medicine in South Dakota, has sounded the alarm on the Impossible Whopper, which, he says, contains so much estrogen that the mock-meat burger could grow breasts on men who wolf down too many of the Burger King sandwiches. "Now let me refresh your metric system," Stangle writes. "There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg). That means an impossible whopper [sic] has 18 million times as much estrogen as a regular whopper [sic]. Just six glasses of soy milk per day has enough estrogen to grow boobs on a male." [...] Nutrition Action, a resource website produced by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, noted that the soy scare may have originated with a "2008 report in a medical journal about a 60-year-old Texas man who complained of sore, enlarged breasts and a decreased libido." Blood tests showed his estrogen levels were up to eight times higher than those at the top end of the normal range, the site reported.
Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen (James Stanger, 2019-12-20)
Evidence (2024-09-19): Three or four nanograms per milliliter can be lethal to adults. — [...] According to Leeper, 3 nanograms per milliliter of blood would be deadly. — [...] The Impossible Whopper, Stangle concludes, has 44 milligrams of estrogen compared to just 2.5 nanograms in the beef Whopper. —