You should smell it before they cook it. Gag inducing. At least for me, and to be fair it was Beyond Meat, which is supposed to also closely mimic real meat.
This stuff is so highly processed, I don’t care what they say, there is little doubt in my mind it is as bad, and likely far far worse for you, than the ground meat they want you to believe is bad for you.
The more processed a food is, doesn’t matter what kind of food, vegetable, or animal... whether it has added chemicals or not.. simply the act of processing food makes it less healthy for you.
Study after Study has shown this... just the act of chopping or grinding up food, before consumption is less healthy than biting and chewing the food yourself...
These things are some of the most processed foods you can put into your body, and in time will be shown to be about as healthy as a mass produced low end frozen dinner... I really can’t understand why anyone is buying this nonsense.
Tried BeyondMeat too. Didn’t love it, though my butcher said a lot of people do.
I have meat-free days, basically with tofu and tempeh. Tempeh is not bad at all. mixed with lots of veggies in a pan, but tofu needs help. Found a great recipe for mixing a bunch of spices in a pan, stirring them in oil, plopping tofu in to coat on all sides, then sautéing . It was a winning MasterChef recipe, the challenge was to make yucky tofu taste good.
If you want to.
If they’re so against real meat, why do they do everything they can to mimic real meat?