List of meat substitutes

A patty prepared from crushed soybean, avocado, tomato and beetroot

This is a list of meat substitutes. A meat analogue, also called a meat substitute, approximates certain aesthetic qualities (primarily texture, flavor and appearance) or chemical characteristics of specific types of meat. Many analogues are soy-based (see: tofu, tempeh) or gluten-based.

Meat substitutes: natural, traditional and commercially made

Tempeh is a traditional soy product originally from Indonesia that is prepared by a natural culturing and controlled fermentation process that binds soybeans into a cake form.

• Alpro and Provamel, both usually known for their plant milk range, also offer different vegetarian meat substitutes
• Beanfeast
• Beyond Meat
• Boca Burger
• Cedar Lake Foods
• Falafel, a traditional Middle Eastern bean fritter, believed to have been created by ancient Copts as a meat substitute during Lent
• Fistulina hepatica, common mushroom known as beefsteak fungus
• Ganmodoki, a traditional Japanese tofu based dish similar to veggie burgers
• Gardein
• Gardenburger
• Glamorgan sausage
• In vitro meat

Thawed and sliced frozen tofu

• Jackfruit, a fruit whose flesh has a similar texture to pulled pork when cooked
• Koya-dofu (kōya-dōfu, 高野豆腐 in Japanese), freeze-dried tofu that has a taste and texture very similar to meat when prepared, common in Buddhist vegetarian cuisine
• La Loma Foods
• Laetiporus, a mushroom which is also named chicken of the woods
• Leaf protein concentrate
• LightLife
• Linda McCartney Foods
• Lyophyllum decastes, mushroom known as fried chicken mushroom
• Meat extenders
• Match Meat
• Mock duck
• Morningstar Farms
• Nut roast
• Oncom
• Okara, used for veggie burgers and croquettes
• Paneer, for example in such dishes as Paneer tikka
• Quorn
• Soy protein

Tempeh burger served in a restaurant

• Tempeh
• Textured vegetable protein
• Tofu, not traditionally seen as a meat substitute in Asia, but widely used for that purpose in the Western hemisphere
• Tofurkey
• Tofurky
• Turtle Island Foods
• Vegetarian bacon
• Vegetarian hot dog
• Veggie burger
• Viana, one of the largest German vegan food manufacturers, offers a wide range of veggie burgers, croquettes, sausages, minced mock meats, up to vegan döner, vegan gyros and deli slices for sandwiches

Mock-meats section, Veganz, Schivelbeiner Straße 34, Berlin, a wide range of Viana and Provamel products is displayed on the left

• Welsh rarebit
• Wheat gluten, also known as miàn jīn in Chinese (traditional: 麵筋, simplified: 面筋, literally "dough tendon"; also spelled mien chin or mien ching), or in Japan fu (麩(ja), lit. "gluten") or seitan (グルテンミート, romanized "gurutenmīto," from the English "gluten meat"), or, rarely, (セイタン, "seitan")
• Worthington Foods

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  Sliced nut roast with brussels sprouts

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  Veggie burgers prepared from beans being cooked

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  Vegetarian hot dog sausages from Germany

See also

• Cheese analogue
• List of bacon substitutes
• List of fermented soy products
• Vegetarian food

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons