![]() ![]() This flavorless fowl isn’t going to save the world, nor will it make you live longer.Īlthough the Beyond bites boast of having 40% less saturated fat than actual chicken nuggets, any direct benefits from this down the road would likely be negligible. Yes, they are made from a laboratory compound of “pea fiber,” flour, wheat gluten, yeast and other plant-based, mouth-watering substances, but they are fried in the same oil that the fast food chain uses for real chicken. Not even vegetarianĪnd they’re not actually vegetarian. But the ersatz nuggets aren’t anything you’d want to consume sober or in daylight. Yes, there was mouth feel - the salty, crisp-and-mush blur that’s soothing when you’re the last customer in the bar at 2 a.m. It tasted like seitan, the wheat-based gluten bomb that for decades has been a go-to among vegetarians as a meat substitute. It also didn’t taste like something experts have spent two years developing. New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo in front a sign for KFC’s new Beyond Nuggets. Once freed, the spongy, solid matter did not taste remotely like real chicken, much of which doesn’t actually taste like chicken these days, thanks to factory farming and antibiotics. After some work, I managed to extract the miserly, vegan morsel that seemed glued inside its nugget. I wanted to taste the thing separate from the hype - and from the oily, over-seasoned, “eleven-spiced” breading that scorched my tongue like a blowtorch. The idea behind offering artificial chicken at KFC is to “democratize plant-based protein,” according to Beyond Meat founder Ethan Brown.īut this bogus bird would not fool a 7-month-old experiencing solid food for the first time. The fake chicken from within KFC’s new offerings come from Beyond Meat, a rival to Impossible Foods, which created the famous Impossible Burger. The chain’s supposedly long-awaited Beyond Nuggets (six for $7.99) are beyond awful - worse than KFC’s near-flavorless real-meat chicken tenders. KFC is the latest fast-food giant to claim that “plant-based” chicken can taste as good as the real thing - but the chain picked the wrong faux fowl to make its case. Nearly half of Americans would avoid stores without drive-thrus: poll ![]() Taco Bell accused of false advertising for Crunchwraps, Mexican pizzas in NY man’s class-action suit I drank 12 cans of Mountain Dew a day - here’s what happened when I stopped MrBeast sues company making MrBeast Burger for serving ‘inedible’ meals ![]()
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