Wednesday, January 9

 

Will Mushrooms Replace Soy as a Mock Meat?

A company called Quorn Foods (Corn?) has just received FDA approval for an eight-item line of frozen and refrigerated meat substitutes using fermented mushrooms as a base. The company has built a $150-million business in Europe and uses a patented protein that it says creates a more realistic chicken substitute than the current soy-based products in the market.
posted by Unknown 12:18 PM