Fmr. US agriculture chief on Beyond Meat’s nutritional reality

Talk about mystery meat.

As plant-based protein makers like Impossible Foods and the newly public Beyond Meat take the food industry by storm, the question of whether their products are better for consumers than actual meat is still very much open, says former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman.

“We can’t really market it … as necessarily better for you, because we don’t know,” Glickman, who now runs the Aspen Institute’s Congressional Program, said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Fast Money.”

“Some people eat it. It certainly won’t hurt you. It can be very tasty. But it doesn’t mean it’s better for you,” he said.

Glickman, who recently co-authored an op-ed in the New York Times titled “We…