Those nuggets are barely chicken anyways. If they can make a healthier, tastier nugget then that's a win for everyone.
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I bet they are not healthier.
They are not - they have super high sodium levels.
Ah perfect. Nuggets and fries are but mere vessels to deliver salt to my taste buds. This is a positive development.
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Are they cheaper?
The panel of 1,150 American omnivores liked nuggets from Impossible Foods, MorningStar Farms, Quorn, Rebellyous Foods and Simulate the best
It wasn't a single particular nugget, but an aggregate of vegan nuggets. And I can assure you, that Quorn and Morningstar are definitely cheaper than livestock chicken nuggets.
Really? They're multiple times more here
Srsly? Wow. I've seen immposible go for around ten dollars, gardien for like 5, and then morning star and quorn for around 3. I don't buy any of them because baking my own tofu ones is easy and I enooy cooking.
This is on the west coast US
In Australia they’re basically triple price. I can get 500g of Australian chicken nuggets for $3.50 or 280g of Quorn for $7
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Yeah around me they are at least double. Usually like 2.5-3x more expensive. It's the only thing that stops me from getting them like constantly
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Not cheeper anyway. Less cheep. Dunno about the cost
There’s cauliflower “chicken” nuggets my girlfriend and I get often. They’re WAY better than chicken.
They do cauliflower Buffalo wings near my place. They're fucking delicious and just taught me the chicken is merely a substrate for the hot sauce and dip to live on. Plus no bones
Yeah that's something I learned too. While meats can and do have their own distinct flavor, seasoning does most of the heavy lifting.
I haven't stopped eating meat entirely but just practicing seasoning use has opened my pantry up to do many more foods.
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That sounds good. With meat-alternative products I find they are incredibly polarized. Like they are either incredibly amazing, or they are nearly inedible
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Cheap chicken nuggets are trash anyways. If you're buying cheap chicken nuggets, you may as well do yourself the favor of getting the ones made of tofu instead of chicken paste.
It's the breading and the deep friedness that makes it good.
This is my entire take on most veg meat replacements. I won't use substitutes in place of higher quality meat, but if I could I'd replace every single instance of low quality meat in my diet with some tofu/cauliflower/tempeh/whatever substitute.
It's like, I get the nostalgia of shitty chicken nuggets, but 0% chance of biting into a piece of gristle? Sign me up
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Probably has more to do with spices than the chicken vs non-chicken. There are some incredible vegan-meat stuff out there because the spice game is 10/10. And I’m down for it.
Chicken smells awful to me, especially what they use for typical nuggets, plus I never really enjoyed those gross gristle bits.
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From the article "Though the taste of the average plant-based product “is meaningfully behind” the animal version, one notable non-nugget exception was a blended burger."
They aren't saying that plant-based foods are tastier than meat ones. Only that there's more of a desire for them from people because of them being plant-based.
It literally says that the only thing that people didn't completely think was inferior to meat was something blended with meat lol... Besides some nuggets, apparently.
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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
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.
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Alternative headline -
Plant based version of the absolute worst quality meat product is the only one from five that is preferable to the meat version, but only because it's deep fried and unhealthy
Come on guys
Make them free for all. Solve hunger and reduce carbon emissions.
Our nuggies comrades.
Nuggets solving the climate crisis would be the perfect ending to the clown-era of humanity
Is that because normal chicken nuggets are so over processed now that they’re more easily defeated in taste tests?
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had “fake” chicken nuggets and they’re absolutely fine. I’d have them any time vs regular.
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What are the highly processed ingredients?
Aldi had some plant based nuggs for a bit that were by far the best nuggets I've had as an adult. Never seen them again though, sadly.
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I had some plant based nuggets and they were horrible! They had all the flavour and texture of chewing a cardboard box.
So colour me skeptical.
I had Franzia and it was horrible! Bitter and it took on plastic flavors from the bag it was stored in.
Colour me skeptical of wine.
Like drinking from a tire
I've had probably 4 or 5 different brands. Two of them were really good, the others were as you described.
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