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My Ten Favorite Vegan Products at the National Restaurant Association Show
I was lucky enough to be at the National Restaurant Association Show and I got to eat allllll the vegan foods. I’ve got some thoughts.
Here are the products that really made an impression on me as being of superior quality, unique, filling a gap, or, ideally, all of the above. There were really so many more things worthy of a mention — and, honestly, I couldn’t try it all because of time and fullness constraints — but there is truly a dizzying array of plant-based products available today for food service and retail alike.
It’s an exciting time.
1. Yo, there’s a new egg in town!
This booth pretty much stole the show with their scarily perfect rendition of eggs in poached and sunny-side form with animal-free ingredients, of course. Although it looked and smelled just like the eggs I remember from my vegetarian and omni days, nothing prepared me for that yoke that ran when pierced with my fork. I think I may have actually screamed. (It was okay, it was loud in there.) An Israeli start-up, the YoEgg will be in the U.S. starting on the West Coast in the fall…
