Product Review: Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles
The exact ingredient list for Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles is as follows:
Ingredients:
Textured vegetable protein (wheat gluten, soy protein concentrate, water for hydration), water, corn oil, contains two percent or less of autolyzed yeast extract, chicory root fiber (inulin), natural flavors from non-meat sources, black malt powder, salt, soy sauce (water, soybeans, salt, wheat), cornstarch, sugar, garlic powder, onion powder, tomato powder, onion juice, spices, vitamins and minerals (niacinamide, iron [ferrous sulfate], thiamin mononitrate [vitamin B1], pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin B6], riboflavin [vitamin B2], vitamin B12).
The Morningstar Farms People also make another version of crumbles that are sausage style. If you are looking for a meatless alternative to sausage, then these crumbles are the ticket and work just the same as the fake ground beef crumbles.
Now let’s look at how Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles works. These are precooked crumbles that are ready to heat and serve and require no thawing. You just add them to your favorite recipe like you would ground beef. Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles come in a 12-ounce package and 12 ounces is the equivalent to 1 pound of uncooked ground beef. So, if your recipe normally calls for a pound of ground beef, you would use one 12-ounce package instead. You can use these crumbles for making sloppy joes, tacos, pasta with fake meat sauce, stir fry, casseroles, stroganoff, and any number of endless dishes that normally use ground beef as a key ingredient. Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles, however, does not contain the high cholesterol and calories that real ground beef does. It is a healthier option and the perfect solution to creating meat style dishes that are really meatless. Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles has ZERO trans fat, ZERO saturated fat, and 2 grams of polyunsaturated fat. Polyunsaturated fat is the “good” fat that helps reduce cholesterol. It is also high in protein. Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles are a healthy meat alternative for vegetarians, diabetics, and people reducing their cholesterol intake.
Morningstar Farms is a division of Kellogg’s and as such, their line of veggie products and meatless soy alternatives are available in most mainstream grocery stores.
Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles are the first burger style crumbles I ever tried. I was ecstatic when I first discovered the product because I knew how easily it could imitate meat in a vegetarian recipe. It is a versatile product and I have used it literally hundreds of times. I would rank Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles as the number 1 tasting fake ground beef product available on the market. I would rank Boca Meatless Ground Burger as an extremely close second. The Boca is slightly healthier than the Morningstar Farms and also meets the requirement of it being a vegan product. So, hats off to Boca for being able to achieve those 2 things with the great taste of its competition. I prefer the convenient packaging of Boca Meatless Ground Burger because I don’t always use an entire package when I cook, it just depends on the recipe and how many people will be eating. The Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles have a slightly better texture over Boca, and that is probably because TVP is the first ingredient listed. Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles has a slightly better seasoned taste than Boca, but as I said in my previous review of Boca Meatless Ground Burger, flavorless is a good thing in fake ground beef. What is UNdesirable is a soy taste or after taste. Neither Morningstar Farms, nor Boca has any unpleasant after taste. Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles work for anything I want to cook that would normally have ground beef EXCEPT fake meat loaf and burger patties. The crumbles are not sticky enough to hold together and form a shape. Even with added sticky ingredients in fake meatloaf, the fake loaf comes out looking good and tasting good, but impossible to slice and is just one big crumbled mess.
I highly recommend Morningstar Farms Grillers Recipe Crumbles as a fake ground beef and you don’t have to be vegetarian to enjoy its benefits and good taste.
So, which fake ground beef do I buy the most? If a store has Morningstar Farms priced the same as Boca, I will buy Morningstar Farms. Otherwise, between the two products I buy the one I get the best price on, which usually results because of an instant coupon stuck to the package. Now that is marketing that works.
Soy Be It.
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