Thanks, smokes. Yes. Anyone who bothers to read the nutritional information on the back of these products can see that many of them leave a good deal to be desired. I haven't had an Impossible Burger, but didn't realize it was also soy based. My preferred alternative burger is the Beyond Meat Burger, which is delicious, but very high in calories (well 230 per burger) and has 5 g of saturated fat, main ingredient is a form of pea protein
https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger. This is less than half of that in a Big Mac (11g), but I never eat hamburgers anyway. We eat them for lunch occasionally. The Boca burgers and Quorn are also good. Most of them use some kind of bean for protein, while the Quorn is based on some kind of fungus (mycoprotein). The latter makes me think of what kind of diet I'd be eating on an asteroid colony. It's not bad but I don't think I'd want it all the time.
Gardein makes some good alternative dishes like Mandarin Chick'n, good with vegetables and rice; and to my amazement, Crabless Crab Cakes; some of them -- fishless fish sticks and chick'n tenders, are based on meat versions that are not healthy for you in the first place, so we eat them sparingly.
I rarely eat these prepared foods, and usually run the other way when I see Vegan in the name (particularly fake cheese). I eat mostly plants, but also eat most dairy and for flesh, I eat seafood and poultry. We like a range of vegetarian burger substitutes. This fake sausage is not something I'd normally buy, but I was tempted by a variety of marketing discounts. They look really fake, from the saran wrap covering that keeps them in their extruded tubular shape to the various ingredients.
I was wondering if these brands are also marketed in the UK? If not, what do you eat there? There is a long established culture of vegetarianism there so I am curious.
