Beyond Meat’s burger could pose health risks to people with peanut allergies — even though it doesn’t contain peanuts

Beyond Meat, the maker of the Beyond Burger the plant-based meat substitute that looks and tastes like beef that’s sold at Whole Foods AMZN, +0.75% and restaurant chains like TGI Friday’s and Carl’s Jr., doesn’t contain any peanuts. But people with food allergies should proceed with care, according to Utah-based Nadia Pflaum, an investigative producer with KUTV 2News in Salt Lake City. Pflaum said she had to take Benadryl after eating a Beyond Burger she purchased at Carl’s Jr. in Salt Lake City. The ingredient, pea-protein isolate, and some restaurants fail to give allergy warnings, she said. Pflaum said she’s allergic to peanuts, but has never had an issue with peas and didn’t see any warning signs at the restaurant, despite advertisements for the burger. “Beyond Meat was advertised all over: Outside on the windows, inside on the walls, on place mats, placards and even on the cashiers’ shirts. But nowhere did we see any print, fine or otherwise, that offered any allergy warnings,” KUTV 2News reported...MORE