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01JunJune 1, 2023

Tattoed Chef Plant Based Beef Burrito Bowl

Frozen foods are hot, with consumers frequently searching the freezer aisles for convenient, tasty and exciting better-for you options. While scouring the aisles ourselves, we spotted an 8.5-oz. single-serve Plant Based Beef Burrito Bowl from Tattooed Chef. Made with plant-based beef, roasted corn and black beans tossed in a jalapeno...

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01AprApril 1, 2023

Daring Chicken

Many of us are familiar with breaded plant-based chicken, but what about unbreaded? Daring has a line of unbreaded Plant Chicken Pieces available in Original, Cajun, Lemon & Herb and Teriyaki. Since the Original is as plain as one can get, we opted to taste-test this variety in the hopes...

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01FebFebruary 1, 2023

Gardein F’sh Fillets

Most of us are familiar with plant-based meat and chicken by now, but many are less familiar with plant-based fish products. When we saw Gardein Plant-Based F’sh Filets in our grocer’s freezer, they looked just like the “real” thing, and we knew we had found the perfect product for a...

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01DecDecember 1, 2022

Trader Joe’s Turkeyless Ground

On a recent grocery store excursion, always on the lookout for new alt-meat items, we discovered Trader Joe’s Turkeyless Ground. Labeled both ‘vegan’ and ‘plant-based’ on the package front to appeal to a wide audience, Turkeyless Ground is described on TJ’s website as “a superbly savory protein that evokes the...

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01OctOctober 1, 2022

Omni Pork Style Strips

The world of alt-meats tends to focus heavily on ground meat and nuggets, so when we heard about OmniFoods’ OmniPork Strips’ debut in the US, we thought it would be ideal for Taste Test. We hadn’t seen a “pork-strip- type” product before, and when we realized that this is simply...

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01AugAugust 1, 2022

Jack & Annie’s Maple Breakfast Jack Sausage

Breakfast for dinner? Why not?! With so many enjoying breakfast foods throughout the day, when we spotted jack & annie’s maple breakfast jack sausage in our local freezer case, we thought it would be a great plant-based product to share with our tasters. These ‘sausage’ links are made from jackfruit,...

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01JunJune 1, 2022

Beyond Meatballs

Many people are navigating their way toward healthier food choices and, for some, that means experimenting with more plant-forward eating. According to SPINS research, plant-based burgers lead the alternative meat category, but meatballs, nuggets, tenders, cutlets and deli products are quickly expanding the growth. We spotted Beyond Meat Beyond Meatballs...

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01AprApril 1, 2022

Impossible Chicken Nuggets Made from Plants

Impossible Chicken Nuggets Made from Plants’ bright teal package stood out on one of our shopping trips with its image of crispy, “meaty” nuggets on the front, so we chose it for the first item we taste tested for Alt-Meat.

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