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PATTY PARADISE.


Life is tough for the health-conscious breakfast-sausage-lover. Those sizzling, savory patties, oozing oozing

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 with what's gotta be the most flavorful grease in the universe, can test the willpower of even the staunchest vegetarian. But how many arteries and waistlines can handle the 250 calories and 24 grams of fat (eight of them saturated) in, for example, two Jimmy Dean Regular Pork Sausage patties?

If you find yourself getting weak in the knees at the thought of a good pan-fried sausage, take heart. The same folks who brought you those remarkably meat-like Boca Burgers have done it again. Close your eyes and you'll swear that Boca Meatless Breakfast Patties are the real thing--same consistency, same flavor, yet half the calories and none of the sat fat. Eat two patties and you'll end up with 160 calories, eight grams of good-for-your-heart unsaturated fat unsaturated fat: see saturated fat. , and a nice dose of soy protein to help lower your cholesterol.

Not to be outdone out·do  
tr.v. out·did , out·done , out·do·ing, out·does
To do more or better than in performance or action. See Synonyms at excel.
, Boca competitor Yves Veggie Cuisine, known for its smashing, bring-on-the-mustard-and-sauerkraut meatless weiners, has come out with its own version. Yves Veggie Breakfast Patties' numbers are even better than Boca's, and Yves is fortified fortified (fôrt´fīd),
adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient.
 with B-vitamins, zinc, and iron to match what you'd get in meat.

Either way, you can't lose ... anything but some LDL LDL - ["LDL: A Logic-Based Data-Language", S. Tsur et al, Proc VLDB 1986, Kyoto Japan, Aug 1986, pp.33-41].  ("bad") cholesterol and a few pounds, that is.

Boca: www.bocaburger.com.

Yves: (800) 667-9837.
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Title Annotation:2 soy-based breakfast patties reviewed
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Oct 1, 2001
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