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Originally Posted by Elsi
I'm not fond of fake meat dishes either. Though when I was in England, I ate some spectacular Quorn vegetarian "sausages". (Quorn is a brand-name for foods made from mycoprotein or mushroom/fungal proteins.) The fake meat products can make it easier for someone who is transitioning to vegetarian eating in that their meals won't look very different from before and yet they can feel virtuous that they're eating more healthily. Now, the risk is that the manufacturers of fake meat products pump them up with extra fat and artificial flavors to try and capture the esthetics of the meat and what you get is actually less healthy.
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we don't have many products like that here (i've never seen quorn for instance) but we do have soya "sausages" in bio food stores. i suspect they don't taste very much like real sausages, but i buy them sometimes as a snack food ; the ones i get are just soy protein and some spices, a lot like tofu, so i don't think they are particularly unhealthy.
i wish we did have quorn here ; i keep hearing about it and i would like to try it.