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Maybe if you are used to eating processed food, but as someone who almost always cooks meals from scratch, this list of ingredients doesn't look appealing. If I

Maybe if you are used to eating processed food, but as someone who almost always cooks meals from scratch, this list of ingredients doesn't look appealing. If I was buying a chicken breast, there wouldn't even be a list of ingredients. "textured wheat protein" - no idea what it, but it sounds disgusting, and very highly processed. I'd presume it also contains gluten? "potato protein" - again, it sounds like something highly processed. "natural flavors" - it doesn't specify exactly what they are, so I don't even know what I'm eating - I don't like it. "leghemoglobin" - you mentioned what this is, but otherwise it sounds like a lab-produced chemical. "yeast extract" - makes me think of marmite, which is one of the most revolting substances on earth! Aside from that, I think of the smell of yeast; I... don't think I want to eat that. "konjac gum" - never heard of it. "xanthan gum" - I think it's some kind of thickening agent? "soy protein isolate" - no idea what this is. The wheat and potato proteins don't have "isolate" in their names, so I assume this is even more highly processed. For some reason it makes me think of processes like "hydrogenation" - ways we mess around with foods to make them as cheap as possible, sometimes with negative health consequences. "vitamin E..." - makes me think the raw ingredients on their own are so unhealthy that they had to add a few crushed multivitamins. Overall: it sounds highly processed and devoid of nutrition. blech!

Clewza313 6y ago
Konjac is a plant that has been eaten in East Asia for thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac And if you find yeast "revolting", I take it you don't like bread or beer either?
- GordonS 6y ago
  Of course not (tho when baking bread I do find the smell of the yeast on it's own to be quite unpalatable). My point is that I don't expect to find yeast in the ingredients list for "meat", and that was simply my initial reaction. I know it wasn't your point, but as an aside: isn't the "used" yeast slurry removed from most commercially produced beer? (depending on the style, obv)
  - esperent 6y ago
    Your comments read as contrarian and determined to find fault with this product. If your instinct is to dislike it so much, the answer is simple: don't eat it. Each of the ingredients bar "natural flavors" (which usually means a proprietary spice blend or msg) can be found with a simple Google search - as someone else said, konjac is an Asian vegetable, textured wheat protein has been a staple of vegan cooking for decades and can be bought in any health food shop, and so on. > isn't the "used" yeast slurry removed From beer, partially. From bread, no.
    - GordonS 6y ago
      This is a really unkind interpretation of my comments - I am certainly not trying to find fault, merely sharing my initial reaction to a list of seemingly strange ingredients. You may be familiar with these ingredients, but that doesn't mean anyone who isn't used to highly processed food is "wrong" for not knowing what they even are.
      - esperent 6y ago
        However, you have the internet and the ability to research a thing before making your mind up on whether it's good or bad. You didn't do that, instead you listed ingredients and for each one essentially went "weird, never heard of it, yuck" which is a level of sophistication regarding food that I'd expect of a teenager or child. Here on HN you should put a bit more effort in before being dismissive of the unknown.
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Clewza313 6y ago

Konjac is a plant that has been eaten in East Asia for thousands of years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konjac And if you find yeast "revolting", I take it you don't like bread or beer either?

GordonS 6y ago
Of course not (tho when baking bread I do find the smell of the yeast on it's own to be quite unpalatable). My point is that I don't expect to find yeast in the ingredients list for "meat", and that was simply my initial reaction. I know it wasn't your point, but as an aside: isn't the "used" yeast slurry removed from most commercially produced beer? (depending on the style, obv)
- esperent 6y ago
  Your comments read as contrarian and determined to find fault with this product. If your instinct is to dislike it so much, the answer is simple: don't eat it. Each of the ingredients bar "natural flavors" (which usually means a proprietary spice blend or msg) can be found with a simple Google search - as someone else said, konjac is an Asian vegetable, textured wheat protein has been a staple of vegan cooking for decades and can be bought in any health food shop, and so on. > isn't the "used" yeast slurry removed From beer, partially. From bread, no.
  - GordonS 6y ago
    This is a really unkind interpretation of my comments - I am certainly not trying to find fault, merely sharing my initial reaction to a list of seemingly strange ingredients. You may be familiar with these ingredients, but that doesn't mean anyone who isn't used to highly processed food is "wrong" for not knowing what they even are.
    - esperent 6y ago
      However, you have the internet and the ability to research a thing before making your mind up on whether it's good or bad. You didn't do that, instead you listed ingredients and for each one essentially went "weird, never heard of it, yuck" which is a level of sophistication regarding food that I'd expect of a teenager or child. Here on HN you should put a bit more effort in before being dismissive of the unknown.

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