Meatless in burgerland.The Hard Rock Cafe's got 'em. Ditto for T.G.I. Friday's T.G.I. Friday's (often referred to as just "Fridays") is a popular American restaurant chain focusing on casual dining, with over 500 restaurants across the United States, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Australia and the UK, as well as many other countries around the world. . If you live in Buffalo, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , you can even get them at Burger King. And come this fall, you should be able to pick up a box of them at your local supermarket. Veggieburgers are taking off. But there's a bump in the runway. Most people don't have a clue what to make of ingredients like soy protein Soy protein is generally regarded as the storage protein held in discrete particles called protein bodies which are estimated to contain at least 60–70% of the total soybean protein. concentrate, wheat gluten, or tempeh tem·peh n. A high-protein food of Indonesian origin made from partially cooked, fermented soybeans. [Indonesian tempe, from Javanese, soybean cakes.] . (Tempeh? Isn't that a city in Arizona?) Here's something to save a little wear and tear on your tastebuds --not to mention waistline. NON-BURGER BASICS While some veggieburgers still try to fool your tastebuds into thinking you're eating beef, a new generation of products couldn't care less. Gardenburgers, for example, are made mostly of mushrooms. They're delicious on a bun with tomato, onion, lettuce, and ketchup. if the prospect of discovering a new food isn't enough to get you to try veggieburgers, check out "Ground beef" on our chart. Don't bother searching. It's at the bottom. Even "extra lean" beef gets more than half its calories from fat. And six of its 14 grams of fat are the artery-clogging saturated kind. Oh yeah. Meat has no fiber. Almost any veggieburger can do better than that--and with no worries about "fixings" like E. coli E. coli: see Escherichia coli. E. coli in full Escherichia coli Species of bacterium that inhabits the stomach and intestines. E. coli can be transmitted by water, milk, food, or flies and other insects. or Salmonella bacteria. (If the thought of not eating meat makes you queasy QUEASY - An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. , use Healthy Choice 96% Extra Lean Ground Beef or ground skinless turkey breast. Both are lower in fat than many veggieburgers, although a three-ounce patty of either uses up almost a quarter of your daily cholesterol limit.) BURGERS IN RATING Here are the taste test results for all of the "Best Bites" and "Honorable Mentions" we could get. We prepared them according to the package directions, baking, microwaving, or frying them in a non-stick pan with no oil. We've divided the burgers into groups, based on their main ingredients. Within each group, products are listed from best tasting to worst. VEGETABLE * Gardenburger. Frozen. If you're not looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a meat taste, this is the one to try. Served at T.G.I. Friday's and Hard Rock Cares. * Garden-Mexi. Frozen. Added beans give each patty ten grams of fiber--a third of your daily goal. * Garden-Veggie. Frozen. A cheese-less Gardenburger. * Woodstock Whole Earth Better Burger. Frozen. Veggie-rich, but bland. FAKE MEAT (soy or wheat protein) * Midland Harvest Burger 'N Loaf. Mix. Hamburgery taste and texture. Enough added vitamins and minerals to match ground beef. * Midland Harvest Harvest Burgers or Green Giant Harvest Burgers. Frozen. Burger 'N Loaf with water added and formed into patties. Green Giant should be in supermarkets by fall. * Whole Earth Burger Mix. Mix. Similar to Burger'N Loaf. * Yves Veggie Cuisine Burger Burgers. Refrigerated re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. . Tastes so much like a real burger that some of our vegetarians wouldn't take a second bite. * Morningstar Farms Meatless Garden Vege Patties or Natural Touch Garden Vege Pattie. Frozen. Tastes a little like a cheap veal cutlet. * Eco Burger & EcoMex Burger. Refrigerated. Slightly smoked flavor. * SoyBoy Veggie Sizzler siz·zler n. 1. One that sizzles. 2. Informal A very hot day. . Refrigerated. Smoked flavor, rubbery. * Sun Burgers Wheat Meat. Frozen. A reminder of how bad canned meat substitutes used to be. * La Loma Vege-Burger. Canned. A reminder of how bad canned meat substitutes still are. GRAIN * Nature's Burger, Original. Mix. Nice flavor and not-overly-strong spicing. * Amy's Organic California Veggie Burger. Frozen. Bland. * Sweet Earth Vegeburgers, Grain. Refrigerated. Tastes like the bread you put it between. * White Wave Veggie Life Burger. Refrigerated. A little too sour for our taste. TOFU & TEMPEH * Mandarin Cajun Garden Patties. Refrigerated. Hot but good flavor. Added soy fiber means ten grams per patty. * Ken & Robert's Veggie Burger. Frozen. Tasteless. * Turtle Island Foods Turtle Island Foods is the company which produces Tofurky, a popular vegetarian and vegan alternative to turkey, as well other meatless products. All are vegan and approved by the UK Vegan Society, and most are kosher-certified by the Kosher Services of America. SuperBurgers or Lightlife American Grill Tempeh Burgers. Frozen. The tempeh (fermented soybean soybean, soya bean, or soy pea, leguminous plant (Glycine max, G. soja, or Soja max) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, where it has been cake) was too sour for our tastebuds. The information for this article was compiled by Ingrid Van Tuinen. Tastebuds were contributed by a kitchenful of hungry CSPI CSPI Center for Science in the Public Interest CSPI Corporate Service Price Index CSPI Cumulative Schedule Performance Index staffers. [TABULAR DATA OMITTED] |
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