Debate Over Meat Substitutes

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What's in Those Nuggets? Meat Substitute Stirs Debate

- NYT

 

Europeans have been eating Quorn — Quorn nuggets,

Quorn cutlets, Quorn patties — for 16 years. And, yes,

many say it tastes like chicken.

Quorn — named for a British village and manufactured

in the north of England — is a meat substitute made

from a kind of a fungus, grown in giant fermentation

tanks and processed into a low-fat, protein-rich

substance that has some of the texture of meat. Twenty

million Europeans have tried it, buying nearly a

billion portions, according to the manufacturer,

Marlow Foods, which is owned by AstraZeneca, a leading

drug company based in London.

Now Quorn has come to America. Since January,

Americans have bought half a million boxes in health

food stores and supermarkets, at an average of $3.79

each. But Quorn has managed to infuriate competitors,

fungus experts and a food safety group, who say Marlow

Foods is not quite telling the truth about what's in

those nuggets.

http://nytimes.com/2002/05/14/health/14FUNG.html

 

 

 

 

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