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Meat has a distinct taste, texture and aroma − a biochemist explains how plant-based alternatives mimic the real thing

When you bite into a juicy hamburger, slice into the perfect medium-rare steak or gobble down a plateful of chicken nuggets, your senses are most likely responding to the food’s smell, taste, texture ...
The Day

Inside the world of flavorists, who try to make plant-based meat taste like the real thing

CRANBURY, N.J. — Marie Wright dips four long strips of paper, the kind you'd sniff a perfume sample from at Sephora, into bottles of clear liquid marked Methyl Cinnamate, Ethyl Butyrate, y-decalactone ...
The Washington Post

The missing ingredient in plant-based food isn’t taste or nutrition

For years, plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy have tried — and failed — to beat the real thing on price and taste. No longer. Plant-based foods are nearing or achieving taste parity with meat ...
Business Wire

Prime Roots Launches First Plant-Based Whole Cut Deli Meats That Meat Eaters Chose Over Traditional Meat in Blind Taste Tests

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--After seven years of research and development, Prime Roots, the Berkeley-based pioneer in clean-label plant-based meats, has announced a major leap forward in the deli ...
The Eastsider

Maciel’s Plant-Based Butcher Shop brings vegan meat to Highland Park

Maciel’s Plant-Based Butcher Shop in Highland Park serves convincing vegan meats, from breakfast burritos to pastrami, ribs ...