Plainly each week on the earth of vegan meals information is extra thrilling than the final and this week is not any exception. We’re firing up our grills for Unimaginable’s latest burger, made extra indulgent to fulfill the meatiest of meat-eaters. For seafood cravings, we’re turning to PLNT Burger’s latest limited-time providing: the New Bay Crab Cake Sandwich spiced, in fact, with a sprinkling of Previous Bay. And should you’ve already booked a trip to Hawaii this summer season, cease right into a 7-Eleven for crispy Katsu Musubi layered with OmniFoods’ vegan Spam. Learn on for extra.
1Extra indulgent Unimaginable Burgers
Whereas consuming a plant-based burger is at all times a greater concept than meat, it’s probably not speculated to depend as a salad—as a result of it’s a burger in spite of everything. This week, Unimaginable Meals leaned deeper into that notion with a brand new Unimaginable Indulgent Unimaginable Burger.
“Our burger put us on the map and it’s the core of our enterprise. However we’ve heard from our followers they’d like one thing greater and even juicier, so we in fact stated sure,” Peter McGuinness, president and CEO of Unimaginable Meals, stated in an announcement.
Each-third pound patty is juicier and bolder in taste, shrinks much less on the grill, and is made to higher compete with beef on each degree.
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How does it stand as much as animal meat? Based on Unimaginable, 82 p.c of customers surveyed say they prefer it higher than beef. Well being halo, be damned.
The brand new burger joins Unimaginable’s portfolio of plant-based meats, designed to be an ideal stand-in for animal merchandise for each event and palette.
“Not solely do we’ve got our unique beef merchandise for versatile on a regular basis cooking, however we launched Beef Lite earlier this 12 months for extra nutrition-conscious customers who need a good leaner different to animal beef,” McGuinness stated.
“Our Indulgent Burger is the right addition, giving customers extra choices and methods to attempt to purchase Unimaginable,” he stated. “Making a extra differentiated portfolio permits us to higher meet customers the place they’re.”
The brand new Indulgent burgers can be found on the menu at Bareburger and Monty’s Good Burger, together with choose retailers, with wider restaurant and retailer rollout deliberate for the approaching months.
2Hooray for vegan bacon
Meal equipment providers Purple Carrot and Hungryroot simply acquired a serious vegan bacon improve. That’s as a result of Hooray Meals’ vegan bacon will now be provided as a part of each meal kits.
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At Hungryroot, prospects can now make BLT sandwiches, mac and cheese, and extra utilizing its step-by-step recipes. Purple Carrot can also be providing Hooray’s merchandise in its curated grocery kits, permitting prospects to to make their very own vegan bacon creations.
“It’s a pleasure to associate with Hungryroot and Purple Carrot on empowering customers to discover new culinary horizons and scrumptious plant-based choices,” Sri Artham, founder and CEO of Hooray Meals, stated in an announcement.
“This launch displays the rising demand for extra sustainable and moral meals choices, and we’re honored to be part of it,” he stated.
Exterior of those two partnerships, Hooray’s vegan bacon is out there in North America at retailers reminiscent of Entire Meals and Safeway.
3Fish-free crab cake sandwiches
This time of the 12 months, the craving at all times strikes for somewhat seafood—of the plant-based selection, in fact. Fortunate for us, celeb chef Spike Mendelsohn has simply the factor on his menu at vegan fast-food chain PLNT Burger.
From now till Labor Day, PLNT Burger’s seven places within the DMV space (Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia) are serving the New Bay Crab Cake Sandwich.
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Seasoned with Previous Bay and layered with crisp lettuce, the sandwich is made with a Thoughts Blown crab patty by The Plant-Based mostly Seafood Co.—which was based by Shelly Van Cleve and Monica Talbert, who’ve 20 years of seafood trade expertise below the Van Cleve Seafood Co. situated in Chesapeake Bay.
“I’ve been enthusiastic about partnering with Thoughts Blown since I first tasted their shrimp a number of years in the past,” Mendelsohn stated in an announcement. “As a chef, I count on plant-based seafood to style simply nearly as good as conventional, premium high quality seafood merchandise earlier than we will showcase them in our eating places.”
The mother-daughter duo ventured into vegan seafood to create options that take stress off the oceans and planet, with out sacrificing taste or texture.
“We’re thrilled to associate with PLNT Burger to deliver our Thoughts Blown Crab Cake to life within the irresistible New Bay Crab Cake Sandwich,” Thoughts Blown CEO Monica Talbert stated in an announcement. “I can’t consider a greater associate to launch this limited-time provide with and the timing couldn’t be extra good forward of World Ocean Month.”
To additional save fish and the oceans, The Plant Based mostly Seafood Co. donates one p.c of its earnings to assist the crucial work of the Coral Restoration Basis.
4Banza’s chickpea bucatini
We’re followers of the whole lot pasta and chickpeas however you place the 2 collectively, and our curiosity is piqued. Over at Banza, chickpea pasta is a lifestyle and its latest form, bucatini, is the primary gluten-free pasta of its sort available on the market.
Banza
Bucatini is sort of a grown-up model of spaghetti, with a gap working by means of the center to higher sop up sauces. In 2020, the form was in brief provide attributable to numerous components, together with elevated pasta demand mixed with how laborious it’s to get that gap within the center.
“Our mission is to encourage folks to eat extra chickpeas and different beans, for his or her impression on human well being and the setting,” Brian Rudolph, Banza CEO and co-founder, stated in an announcement.
“When the good bucatini scarcity hit, we knew we needed to make this elusive form from chickpeas,” he stated. “Seems bucatini is a difficult form to provide, however gratefully we pulled it off. We couldn’t be extra excited to deliver bucatini to the Banza group.”
Banza’s new bucatini is completely obtainable at Entire Meals and joins its number of 17 pasta shapes and different merchandise (which incorporates vegan mac and cheese and pizzas)
5OmniFoods’ katsu musubi at 7-Eleven Hawaii
Earlier this 12 months, 7-Eleven pulled out all of the stops when it launched a vegan breakfast sandwich at 500 places throughout Canada. This handheld was made with all of the plant-based MVPs: Simply Egg, Violife cheddar, and Unimaginable Meals’ breakfast sausage.
“Our mission is to offer scrumptious and sustainable plant-based options to the general public, and we imagine that this partnership with 7-Eleven Hawaii is a superb step in the direction of reaching our mission,” David Yeung, Co-Founder and CEO of OmniFoods, stated in an announcement.
This week, 7-Eleven has carried out it once more, this time in Hawaii the place a brand new vegan musubi made with OmniFoods’ plant-based OmniLuncheon (assume vegan Spam) simply launched.
“We’re thrilled to associate with OmniFoods to supply our prospects a brand new plant-based choice that isn’t solely scrumptious but in addition more healthy for them and the planet,” Debbie Lee Quickly, Meals Innovation & Growth Supervisor at 7-Eleven Hawaii, stated in an announcement.
The brand new Katsu Musubi is now at 66 7-Eleven shops in Oahu, Kauai, Maui, and Huge Island. Our summer season journey plans simply took a pointy flip right down to Hawaii. Who’s coming with us?
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Anna Starostinetskaya is the Senior Information Editor at VegNews and is at all times maintaining a tally of all issues vegan in her residence metropolis of San Francisco, CA and in every single place else.
