Meat has a distinct taste, texture and aroma − how do plant-based alternatives mimic the real thing?
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Meat has a distinct taste, texture and aroma − how do plant-based alternatives mimic the real thing?

Salon  

When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food's smell, taste, texture and color. Typically, plant-based meat alternatives are made using nonanimal proteins, as well as chemical compounds that enhance the flavor, fats, coloring agents and binding agents. To produce plant-based meat alternatives, the ingredients are combined to mimic animal muscle tissue, and then supplemented with additives such as flavor enhancers. Each plant protein behaves differently in the manufacturing process, so some plant-based meat alternatives might use different ingredients, depending on their structures. For this reason, food manufacturers will usually develop plant-based meat alternatives that look like classic meat dishes – hamburgers, meatballs, sausages or nuggets.

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Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet
1 year, 4 months ago

Fake Meat Is Bleeding, but It’s Not Dead Yet

Wired  

The day it went public in May 2019, Beyond Meat’s stock soared by 163 percent—the best one-day performance for a major American company in nearly two decades. On an earnings call on August 7, 2023, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown told investors that net revenues had decreased 31 percent year-on-year, prompting the company’s share price to slip more than 10 …

Patty smiths: Check out the latest advances in meatless meat
1 year, 11 months ago

Patty smiths: Check out the latest advances in meatless meat

Hindustan Times  

Turning plants into meat substitutes is complicated. To really mimic meat, one must account not only for specific flavours, but also the textures and sensory expectations diners associate with meat. Many plant-based foods also contain seitan, a processed-wheat gluten that is low-fat, low-carb, high-protein. Oils — typically coconut or peanut — are added next, to make the mock meat feel …

Body less able to absorb protein from vegan ‘meat’, study suggests
2 years, 5 months ago

Body less able to absorb protein from vegan ‘meat’, study suggests

The Independent  

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Learning to cook with plant-based ‘meats’
2 years, 11 months ago

Learning to cook with plant-based ‘meats’

Associated Press  

It’s that time of year when many people resolve to eat less meat. “The veggie meats are an easy substitute,” says Angela Campbell, a pescatarian living in Portland, Maine, who relies on plant-based meats to enhance her cooking. The chicken might brown, but nothing crisps up.” Cheyenne Cohen, a food photographer in Brooklyn, New York, eats vegan at home, and …

Cutting back on meat in 2022? We taste-tested and ranked 9 protein alternatives
2 years, 11 months ago

Cutting back on meat in 2022? We taste-tested and ranked 9 protein alternatives

LA Times  

If you’re wondering how you might upgrade your diet in 2022, know that an army of entrepreneurs hope they have your answer: alternative proteins. “If you judge the product as a giant nugget, it gets a 6 out of 10 on the ‘how close it is to the real thing’ scale.” Meati Chicken mycelium chicken It looks like a frozen, …

Is plant-based meat replacing traditional meat? Know more
3 years ago

Is plant-based meat replacing traditional meat? Know more

India TV News  

The uniquely diverse dynamics of India make it one of the prime treasures of savoury goodness. Plant-based meat products in popular Indian culture Considering the evolving palates of new-age generations, many modernistic cafes and restaurants have started using plant-based meat substitutes to roll out delicious risotto, pasta, burgers, pizzas, and even traditional Indian cuisine. Considering that consuming plant-based meat is …

Why your vegan burger is not always better than chicken
3 years, 1 month ago

Why your vegan burger is not always better than chicken

Live Mint  

Over the last few years, there has been a flurry of plant-based meat substitutes flooding the market: burger patties, sausages, minces, nuggets that claim to be a perfect replacement for the real things. However, the truth is this-- just because plant-based meat substitutes manage to emulate the taste and texture of meat doesn't make it nutritionally the same thing. When …

Plant-based Burgers are Taking Over Processed Meat Buns, But are They Healthy?
3 years, 5 months ago

Plant-based Burgers are Taking Over Processed Meat Buns, But are They Healthy?

News 18  

University of Hertfordshire Hatfield Plant-based diets have surged in popularity during the past few years. They often contain many similar ingredients including protein isolates, emulsifiers, binders and other additives and are made using industrial processing methods, so can be considered an ultra-processed food product. The newness of plant-based burgers and other meat alternatives means that there hasn’t yet been time …

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?
3 years, 5 months ago

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?

Live Mint  

In The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Douglas Adams poses an ethical conundrum that the book’s protagonist, Arthur Dent, finds rather tricky. More recently, economic growth in China and India has been accompanied by significant increases in meat consumption; what used to be largely small-scale pastoral operations transformed into greenhouse gas emitting dystopian factory farms of large-scale cruelty, …

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?
3 years, 5 months ago

What is the recipe for plant-based ’meats’?

Live Mint  

In The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe, Douglas Adams poses an ethical conundrum that the book’s protagonist, Arthur Dent, finds rather tricky. More recently, economic growth in China and India has been accompanied by significant increases in meat consumption; what used to be largely small-scale pastoral operations transformed into greenhouse gas emitting dystopian factory farms of large-scale cruelty, …

Scientists to make mock meat tastier, healthier
3 years, 6 months ago

Scientists to make mock meat tastier, healthier

Live Mint  

As meat-eating continues to increase around the world, food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are focusing on ways to create healthier, better-tasting and more sustainable plant-based protein products that mimic meat, fish, milk, cheese and eggs. It's no simple task, says food scientist David Julian McClements, University of Massachusetts Amherst Distinguished Professor and lead author of a paper …

Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers
3 years, 7 months ago

Taste alone won’t persuade Americans to swap out beef for plant-based burgers

Salon  

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Consumers are more likely to choose a plant-based meat substitute when the restaurant's advertising highlights the social benefits of doing so rather than its taste, according to recently published research I conducted with a colleague. In all three commercials, we presented nutritional information that showed plant-based …

Tricking the Taste Buds: Flavour Makers Rise to Meaty Challenge Amid Concerns Over Health, Animal Welfare
4 years, 1 month ago

Tricking the Taste Buds: Flavour Makers Rise to Meaty Challenge Amid Concerns Over Health, Animal Welfare

News 18  

At flavour maker Givaudan’s innovation centre near Zurich, veteran chef Sam Brunschweiler serves up a lamb shawarma dish that looks and tastes appropriately meaty but is made from pea protein. Givaudan analyses how fat, proteins, sugars and water in meat produce different flavours when heated because “most of the flavour comes from the cooking”, Garofalo said. Stacy Pyett, who manages …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. Earlier in April, major food-and-beverage chains such as Starbucks, KFC and Pizza Hut partnered with US plant-based meat company Beyond Meat to offer time-limited plant-based pasta, sandwiches and "chicken" nuggets in China. With the Mid-Autumn Festival arriving in less than a month, Kam Wah Gift, a bakery company, has …

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China
4 years, 3 months ago

Plant-based meats' popularity takes root in China

China Daily  

Dishes made from plant-based meat are available in some Chinese markets. Earlier in April, major food-and-beverage chains such as Starbucks, KFC and Pizza Hut partnered with US plant-based meat company Beyond Meat to offer time-limited plant-based pasta, sandwiches and "chicken" nuggets in China. With the Mid-Autumn Festival arriving in less than a month, Kam Wah Gift, a bakery company, has …

Foodies and Factory Farmers Have Formed an Unholy Alliance
4 years, 4 months ago

Foodies and Factory Farmers Have Formed an Unholy Alliance

Wired  

One surprising result of the Covid-19 pandemic has been a spike in consumer demand for imitation meats. This new boom in plant-based imitation meats is doubly surprising, since it came without any support at all from the leaders of America’s progressive “food movement.” Well before Covid-19, this movement had taken a stance against the new imitation meats. But the food …

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