White Castle started selling Impossible Sliders in April. Qdoba Mexican Eats hawks Impossible meat in tacos and bowls. Even stodgy ol Burger King is going to roll out an Impossible Whopper, apparently.

With all this false-meat fervor, you probably have a few questions.

Ripped from the company website , heres the ingredients list:

Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% or less of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Soy Protein Isolate, Mixed Tocopherols (Vitamin E), Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Sodium Ascorbate (Vitamin C), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12.

Considering that the steak you buy from your butcher should have one ingredient ("beef"), that ingredients list might seem a little daunting. And that probably brings you to your next question...

Basically, its a soy burger. Its made of soy protein. Theres some fat from the coconut and sunflower oil. And then a bunch of binders so it all sticks together. And then they throw in all these vitamins. But its soy. Not Impossible. Just soy.

Now, Impossible Foods will tell you that theres nothing to fear when it comes to soy, and thats actually true.

All the way back in the 2000s a few small studies and rodent studies appeared to show that compounds within soy called phytoestrogens might disrupt hormones, which could lead to low sperm count and man boobs.

Several news outlets (including this one), may have overblown those findings. Such a link has never been substantiated in human studies, says Qi Sun, M.D. assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard, told Mens Health in October 2018. I dont think this is a concern at all.

In fact, men who consumed diets that included soy had a 29 percent reduced risk of developing prostate cancer, according to a 2018 meta-analysis published in the journal Nutrients.

And so then there's the basic breakdown of important nutrients.

According to Impossible Foods , one 4-ounce Impossible burger patty contains 240 calories, 19 grams of protein, 9 grams of carbohydrates (3 grams of which are fiber), and 14 grams of fat (0 grams of which are trans fat).

Compare that to one 4-ounce grass-fed burger patty, which, according to the USDA , contains 224 calories, 22 grams of protein, 0 grams of carbohydrates (and so 0 grams of fiber), and 14 grams of fat (0.8 grams of which are trans fat, but the natural kind, and yes there are natural forms of trans fat ).

So is the Impossible burger healthy? Sure. Is it healthier than a grass-fed beef burger? Well, no. Because theres nothing really all that wrong with the occasional grass-fed beef burger either .

You can start a whole environmental debate here, but Mens Health isnt about to rip open that rabbit hole (and thats probably not why youre here anyway).

Perhaps the better way to think of this whole protein vs. fauxtein debate is to not pick a side, but adopt the stance of diplomat. Mens Health has long preached the benefits of an inclusionary diet-one that makes room for all types of protein : chicken, beef, salmon, lamb, mollusks, crustaceans, and yes even tofu.

Because if youre only eating tofu, youre missing out on the heart-healthy omega-3s in fatty fish . And if youre only eating salmon, youre missing out on the beneficial properties of CLA within well-raised cattle. And so on

Look, Im just one man. But when I tasted my first Impossible burger, I wasnt all that surprised because I had sort of tasted the Impossible burger before.

The Impossible burger is like tofu (largely because its from the same plant, the soybean) in that it tastes like whatever you put on it. I had my Impossible burger dressed with lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, and yellow mustard. It tasted like lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, and yellow mustard.

I even picked out a little of the patty and tasted it and though, Hey, now this is pretty good. (Note: I didnt say Hey, now this is the best dang burger Ive ever had and Im never ever going back to beef.)

Slap a plant-based protein sticker on this thing and pop it onto every fast food menu in these here 50 states, but a soy burger is still a soy burger.

If that gets you excited, or at least curious, good on you. Give the Impossible burger a try. If you like it, think about working it into your diet. If you dont, try something else.

The challenge to expand the healthful foods you eat doesn't have to be impossible.