Learn to make your own from beans or veggies! These probably are good as well though
I like them better than imitation meat, honestly. I haven’t tried the impossible burger, but I have tried a burger with a beyond meat patty and, man, I dunno. It does come pretty close to tasting like meat, but it tastes kind of off. I think vegan burgers taste best when they don’t try to imitate meat and instead try to do their own thing like make a patty out of beans and beet and stuff.
One benefit of these pre-made meat analogues is they’re made from extracted proteins (soy or peas), so there’s no oligosaccharides and fibers from legumes that ferment and cause gassiness. Personally, I get really bloated from beans and just legumes in general, and stay bloated for a long time. I stay bloated for like three days. I can’t eat them more often than twice a week at best because of it. Some people are lactose intolerant, some are gluten intolerant, some are allergic to pineapples or whatever, I guess I just get really bloated, blame it on my gut flora or something.
Another benefit is they’re already fortified with B vitamins (if you look at the full ingredients list), so good for the masses of people that don’t or can’t pay attention to this stuff.
On the other hand, these are processed foods by definition, so not as fresh as a home made meal. That’s a solid negative.
Do you have a nice recipe? Mine tend to be either really dry or straight up fall apart.
Here’s two I use for vegan steak and vegan chicken:
Beyond Meat’s list of ingredients looks scary:
Water, pea protein* (16%), canola oil, coconut oil, rice protein, flavouring, stabilizer (methylcellulose), potato starch, apple extract, colour (beetroot red), maltodextrin, pomegranate extract, salt, potassium salt, concentrated lemon juice, maize vinegar, carrot powder, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin).
What’s the scary part? The oils and maltodextrin?
The only scary part imo is the vague ‘flavouring’. This could be anything.
It’s people!!
The fact that it’s such a random concoction of unpredictable stuff that don’t come to mind if you read “vegetarian meat”
what do you mean by unpredictable?
well, you don’t think of carrot powder first when you hear “veggie meat”
Hmm honestly I might, but maybe I am different 😄