There is no amino acid replacement for animal based proteins.
Color me skeptical. Whenever I try one of these meat substitutes, it is easily detectable that it is NOT meat.
Has anybody out there actually tried this plant-based "sausage?" If so, what is your opinion of it?
There is no amino acid replacement for animal based proteins.
[[Color me skeptical. Whenever I try one of these meat substitutes, it is easily detectable that it is NOT meat.]]
Walburger’s introduced a meat substitute called’ the impossible burger’ and many folks are saying it’s excellent and yes, does taste, smell and look like real meat- look up ‘impossible burger’ and it’ll bring you to the company website-
If there’s soy in it, be careful. Soy can mess with your hormones and can cause other problem. Be careful with soy.
Proving once again that humans like meat. If they didn’t, there wouldn’t be the push to create fake meat.
I’ll admit to having bought vege-dogs over the decades from (rare) time to time. In the early 1990s they were horrid in texture and flavor. You really questioned just what the heck you were eating. Today... they are surprisingly not bad. They’re no old school butcher’s hot dog in a natural casing. But not bad. I don’t doubt in another decade or two they might just be pretty good.
It’s still rabbit food, and likely to cause intestinal distress.
I haven't had this brand in particular. But thanks to my vegetarian friends, I've had some vegetable-based sausages that, while clearly not made of meat, were actually pretty good in their own right.
Here’s the (likely) contents of Beyond Sausage:
To recreate the sausage texture, the R&D team used a mixture of peas, fava beans, and rice. The Beyond Sausage also contains beet, paprika, and coconut oil.
Another head-scratcher for Beyond Meat’s scientists was how to replicate a sausage’s casing, which is usually made of animal intestine. It naturally folds back on itself—a quality that gives sausages their curved shape, Brown explains. It’s also semi-permeable, allowing some, but not all, of the fat to be released when cooking. “It’s an amazing material,” he adds.
As a solution, the Beyond Meat team decided to use alginate, a substance contained within algae. Brown says it’s decent but not perfect yet. To recreate the sausage’s curve, the company is going to sell the product in molded trays.
From here:http://fortune.com/2017/12/18/beyond-meat-beyond-sausage-launch/
If I wanna eat meat I wanna eat meat. If’n I wanna eat plants, gimme plants. Why do they have to be the same thing?
That said though, I’ve had some veggie sausage that was pretty good.
Soylent Green is next.
I recall buying a package of ‘ham’ veggie stuff in the mid 1970s. It had the taste of ham and color, but the texture was gritty and had veggie strings.
Imitation stuff just doesn’t live up to expectations.
***its plant-based sausage product***
And for years we have been warned against eating over processed food products.
I’ll always eat meat. How many hands and pounds are you? I wabt to make sure I have enough charcoal in the roasting/baking hole in the bround,
My daughter would like plant-based sausage, my son would want meat-based vegetables.
I have not eaten meat or fowl since 1991, but I will eat fish. My last heart scan showed wide open arteries and I have now outlived my dad and grandfather by 12 years. It works for me and I don’t miss eating meat at all.
I sometimes have Taco Tuesday at Del Taco. Since they have black beans (healthy for your kidneys), I have them substitute that for their likely very low quality meat.
If it did not squeal when I shot it its not meat.
Why would a true vegan crave something that tastes like meat?
“We just always want our product to be indistinguishable,” Brown says. “This is one I felt we could get closer to the animal equivalent than other categories.”
Double speak for looks and tastes like sh** .....