Quorn's first vegan product

Tar.Aldarion

They are making a vegan burger not sure if it will be sold here. Also pledged to use millions less eggs every year.

http://vegnews.com/articles/page.do?pageId=3971&catId=8

dynastygal

USA only

Thoushaltnot

I wrote to the Quorn website a while ago, asking whether we'd see any vegan quorn in Europe and got this reply on Friday.

"The ingredients used in the Quorn range of products are vegetable in origin, but all contain a small amount of egg white which is added as a binding agent to produce the firm, meat-like texture that our customers enjoy. In addition, most Quorn products contain whey protein derived from milk.

Over the years, we have expended considerable effort working to find suitable alternative binders to replace the egg which would give the same eating quality and make our products acceptable to vegans. Unfortunately we have never been able to replicate the textures & flavours, (which market research data indicate are the optimum), of our current products with the commercially available, vegan approved, food ingredients.

Although we have no plans to launch a Quorn vegan range in the UK at this time, we are currently trialing a Quorn Vegan burger in the USA. Should this prove to be succesful, we may introduce it to the UK Quorn range in the future.

We value and respect the views of all vegetarians and vegans and would hope to meet their criteria at some time in the future. We will continue to search for acceptable alternatives to eggs and fully assess new ingredients as they come onto the market place, but at present we can unfortunately give no indication of when and indeed if this will ever be achieved."

Fingers crossed.

sweet-rasmus

Thanks for the info Thoushaltnot

oli.

sure who needs quorn when youve got redwood vegideli products, loads of their stuff is vegan and some of its organic. tis good stuff.