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Like chicken but tastier: Plant-based nuggets outperform chicken nuggets in world's largest blind tasting (nationalpost.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean nuggets, the ones that contain mostly "meat paste" and aren't high quality chicken breast strips, those don't taste really good at all, so shouldn't be hard to beat them, they are also not something you need to beat since they are just trying to use the whole chicken the less desirable parts so it doesn't go to waste.

I'd recommend this excellent video about jamie olivers war on nuggets

https://youtu.be/V-a9VDIbZCU?si=DdnB0pYOY69fzDPY

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

While I personally don't do well on a full vegan diet, the vegan food I like is it's own thing, not some terrible imitation of meat.

Indian vegan dishes are amazing for example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Exactly. You can either use high quality natural ingredients or you can try to mimic them. With the exception of some dishes where say imitation ground beef works well, you're always better off highlighting plants and fungus in their natural form rather than trying to make them taste and look like something else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I think it’s a pretty strong argument that plant-based and lab-grown meat companies are making a mistake trying to beat the cheapest, lowest grade meat products such as chicken nuggets. You’ve got a hell of an uphill battle to engineer these things to be both cheaper and tastier than the meat ones.

The issue is that wealthy people (those most likely to be vegan) don’t buy these crappy products in the first place.

If instead they tried to beat high end products such as steaks or rare fish they’d have a much bigger margin for profit, after taking into account all the expensive R&D.