I’ve had one and they actually aren’t bad.

That said,look at the list of ingredients and that will tell you all you need to know. The ones I have seen are just processed crap selling themselves as a healthy alternative to eating whole food. Any time your “plant based” food has 20 ingredients, run. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

The Beyond Burger: pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, water, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavors, gum arabic, sunflower oil, salt, succinic acid, acetic acid, non-GMO modified food starch, cellulose from bamboo, methylcellulose, potato starch, beet juice extract (for color), ascorbic acid (to maintain color), annatto extract (for color), citrus fruit extract (to maintain quality), vegetable glycerin.

Yikes

That is what food eats.

Just grill a large portabella mushroom cap, better than most beef burgers.  
 
And, "when cooked, it gets juicy like beef."!    

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

The Beyond Burger: pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, water, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavors, gum arabic, sunflower oil, salt, succinic acid, acetic acid, non-GMO modified food starch, cellulose from bamboo, methylcellulose, potato starch, beet juice extract (for color), ascorbic acid (to maintain color), annatto extract (for color), citrus fruit extract (to maintain quality), vegetable glycerin.

HeavyG said:

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

The Beyond Burger: pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, water, yeast extract, maltodextrin, natural flavors, gum arabic, sunflower oil, salt, succinic acid, acetic acid, non-GMO modified food starch, cellulose from bamboo, methylcellulose, potato starch, beet juice extract (for color), ascorbic acid (to maintain color), annatto extract (for color), citrus fruit extract (to maintain quality), vegetable glycerin.

It's always a little "scary" when you breakdown the ingredients in a foodstuff.

Not scary at all but I’ll take the nutritional value of a whole egg or pasture raised meat over a factory processed veggie patty any day of the week. 

My take on it is that there is likely an insignificant health difference between the "beyond burger" and standard low fat beef. I've read differing takes on the goodness or badness of coconut oil. Just now, it seems to be a fad food.

I don't know the specifics behind the WW ratings. For the plant patties, I suspect it is because the 2nd ingredient is oil. Current information indicates that fats/oils are in themselves not much of a problem, because most of it is simply excreted, not digested. Both plant and animal.

Looking at the ingredient list, lots of effort was made to put something together that has a good texture. Don't know what the cost is, but one could probably make a fine patty w. a bit of work for a whole lot less. 40 years ago, I had a very good black bean burger from a lady who was a dedicated vegetarian. My elder daughter, also a vegetarian, is getting a reputation for making burgers out of plants. She's doing it on a shoe string. What I've had from the market pre-made have tasted OK, but really, $.75 for a 3 oz slab that is basically adzuki beans is a huge mark up for convenience. Never mind the nutritional fetish.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-stampede-of-meatless-products-overrun-grocery-store-meat-cases-1528653236

Since cows eat plants wouldnt beef burgers fall into the plant based category?

I remember years ago the first Mrs. Flintstone bought a popular brand of frozen meatless burgers for supper.  After thawing them out, I put them on a hot grill.  No sizzle.  Silence.  I cooked them and took a bite.  I guess no sizzle means no flavor.  Garbage.

Last night we had Costco's chipotle black been burgers.  It was ok with enough other condiments.  

Funny, today I smoked two chuckies and a meatloaf - for no reason.  I suspect I was feeling guilty for the veggie burgers.  The world feels right again.