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Your fake chicken patty or nugget may be made from a fungus, and cause you to vomit so violently that blood vessels burst. Yet the FDA, true to form, deems this stuff to be "generally recognized as safe." Yeah, right.
Quorn's "Mycoprotein" Not Safe, CSPI Tells FDA, Again
Seeded on Tue Dec 6, 2011 8:43 PM EST
Article Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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"What's for dinner, Mom? Oh, yum, fake chicken made from fungus, again! You're the best, Mom."
Quorn is a meat substitute that typically takes the shape of artificial chicken patties or nuggets, imitation ground beef, cylindrical “roasts,” as well as other meatless incarnations, such as “Cranberry & Goat Cheese Chik’n Cutlets.” The principal ingredient is a microscopic fungus, Fusarium venenatum, which the company feeds with oxygenated water, glucose, and other nutrients in giant fermentation tanks. Once harvested from the tanks, the material is heat-treated in order to remove its excess RNA, and then dewatered in a centrifuge. Combined with egg albumen and other ingredients, it is then “texturized” into various meat-like shapes.
I have never even seen quorn listed on ingredient lists. Is this something that is only found in fast-food restaurants?
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#1 - Tue Dec 6, 2011 8:45 PM ESTQuorn is the brand name for a variety of products sold that list Mycoprotein in the ingredients.
Some Albertsons, Fred Meyer, Safeway and natural food stores carry the Quorn line. For stores in your area, look here: http://www.quorn.us/Stores
Here's what they say about one of their products, per http://www.quorn.us/Products
Delicious Quorn Burgers...perfect for BBQs
Great on a whole grain bun with Sharwood's Mango Chutney and freshly chopped tomatoes.
Mycoprotein (38%), partially rehydrated egg white, textured wheat protein (wheat protein, wheat starch), onion, sunflower oil, whey protein concentrate. Contains 2% or less of rusk (wheat flour, ammonium bicarbonate), palm oil, natural flavoring from non meat sources, salt, sugar, tapioca starch, sodium alginate, smoked paprika, pectin, potato maltodextrin, barley malt extract, smoked yeast, potassium chloride, smoke flavoring, citric acid, gum arabic, silicon dioxide, tricalcium phosphate. Made from natural ingredients.
Definitely not for me. I'll stick to hamburger from non-GMO fed beef that doesn't need to be drenched in flavorings to make it palatable. At least it won't sicken or kill me (since I cook it long enough to kill any possible E. coli bacteria, and smell the meat after opening the package to make sure the carbon monoxide used when packaging doesn't make the meat look good even if it's rotten).
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Fake foods kinda psych me out. A lot of fakes are pretty convincing. I do read labels but this label says nothing about mycoprotein or fungus, of course. That just rattles me.
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I am confused. I didn't see any numbers associated with the complaints, and why there is something substantially wrong with this product.
As Corie said, "Definitely for me."
The complaints seem anecdotal, and have not been checked out for reliability.
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#2 - Wed Dec 7, 2011 10:13 AM ESTNot very good science. I suspect in a population of 300 million several people have have the same complaint after eating just about anything. I suspect tens of millions have eaten Quorn and live to eat it again. It is a pretty good chicken substitute and I am still alive.
#3 - Wed Dec 7, 2011 10:15 PM ESTHoney chile, when you have fatalities and the governing department doesn't do anything about even issuing cautionary advisories for groups of people who might have similar reactions, that is nonfeasance.
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