The ULTIMATE VEGAN SAUSAGE Taste Test
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- Its time to find out who has the BEST VEGAN Sausage!! I'm putting the plant based sausage links to the test to find out the winner!
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I literally served 20 beyond sausages to my whole family (we were 10) and all of them are big meat eaters and I’m the only vegan. Not a single person noticed they were vegan sausages, even my brother and father told these were some of the best sausages they ever ate. Beyond sausage are just on a whole other level.
Btw, you have to cover the sausages with olive oil so they don’t dry out.
They definitely do not appreciate good sausage. I can see a meat eater being fine with eating Beyond Sausage, but if they are saying it's the best they've had they clearly have had BAR-S type of quality sausages in the past.
Beyond Sausage Hot Italian is my favorite!
Debbie P :🍽🍽🍽🤤🤤🤤👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Amen sister
Hell yeah!! :D
Just tried them oh so good
Me, too!
For me beyond is hard to beat. I honestly can’t tell the difference between that and real sausage. Granted I haven’t had real sausage in a few years but still, it’s almost exactly how I remember. The hot Italian is my favorite.
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Haven't had real sausage in a few years ?
I can fix that ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
If you fry up beyond sausage into chunks and add it to pasta sauce it makes a good meat ball substitute, you have just got to boil it a little they swell and take on the flavour of your pasta sauce..
That sounds awesome!
I get the Apple Sage Field Roast brand ALL the time! They are so good! Grilled, microwaved, steamed... so great! Love to cut up into salads and veggies.
I was going to try those and wondered if they were good.
The Italian garlic and fennel field roast sausage links are what made me feel like I can transition to become vegetarian
The vegan sausages I tasted ten years ago where so gross. We've come a long way oh boy
My favorite that I’ve never wavered from for decades is Morningstar Farms’ faux breakfast sausage patties. Soooo yummy!!
Their breakfast sausage links are fantastic as well (as are their breakfast strips [fake bacon] and fake ground beef crumble).
I just got Lightlife’s sausage patties and links today to try for the first time from my local food pantry though (along with some other kinds of fake meat they make as well), so we’ll see!
I believe the Lifeline sausage links are the same kind that is being cooked in this video, and aren’t the breakfast kind.
I honestly don’t think that any brand could beat Morningstar Farms’ versions of sausages, so my expectation is extremely low!!
Edit: LIFELINE BREAKFAST SAUSAGE PATTIES WERE NASTY!! 🤢
True that. I went vegan over 3 years ago and even then I couldn’t even stomach omg of them. Also ice cream and cheese have come a really long. I honestly thought it was going to be so rough 😭
We live in the golden era of commercially available vegan food! ☀️
The cheese used to be too. They have come a long way with it
Girl try 30 years ago, 90s veggie dogs were something else. I kinda miss em, the rubbery little things. Lightlife Tofu Pups!
field roast apple sage winner hands down. my favorite fauxsage.
I just couldn't wrap my head around the texture of it. It was my least favorite!! hahah
i like to put it on pizzas and in rice dishes.
agreed. Love all the Field Roast sausages but the Apple Sage is my favorite.
Field Roast products have great flavors, but I guess they don't compare to pork sausage and that's not important to me - in fact the more like pork it is, the more turned off I would be.
@@creageous same
The chipotle field roast sausage is sooo good it literally taste like real meat and has the texture of it too
It’s hard to find it nowadays
@@tynell69 I havent had it in a while but I actually found it at Target if that helps. I've also seen it at Walmart as well
I haven’t seen it at Target or Whole Foods since last year. I try to visit each place once a week. When I do find it. I’m buying all of them like the Gardein hot chicken tenders . Lol I bought about 8 of them for my daughter 😂
@@tynell69 🤣😂
This is definitely my favorite.
I have to say that beyond killed it with their sausages. The only one that comes close for me is Gardine, but they're sliced and harder to find. I would note that in the case of sausage the vegan ones have similar amounts of sodium as the meat versions. Maybe they should try lite salt in a product just to see if it works.
I like Tofurky Italian sausage a lot, and NOT because it tastes like real sausage, but just because I like it for itself--it has a nice spicy, outdoorsy taste and it is filling. I'm not sure I've ever had real sausage in my life, as my mother raised myself and my siblings as almost vegetarians, most likely because we didn't have a lot of money. We were always healthy though, and I continued eating that way until I became vegetarian for about 10 years, and then vegan in the last five years.
I love tofurkey, the texture isn’t very meaty but for reason I love them. They’re also one of the OG’s in vegan products lol
I think a lot of processed meats are so unrecognizable as meat already that the vegan versions don't necessarily need to be all that meaty.
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I tried a tofurkey fake turkey back in college (sometime in 1998-1999), and it was beyond nasty! 🤢 Never wanted to try it again.
I love their brats!
I love field roast the most because it has the least amount of crappy ingredients in it. All the other ones have soy or some strange ingredient that I can't pronounce.
Love that you talk about the ingredients.
We need an Impossible sausage or hot dog. “Impossible” is the best hamburger alternative I’ve tasted so far.
Thank you for your reviews.
I'm sure this video took a lot of work and I really think that all your hard work shines through! Thank you for your thoroughness!
Out of the ones I've tried, I think I light Field Roast the best but Tofurkey is a close second. The italian flavor is actually my favorite of it, and Field Roast gives me strange burps after eating them but they're good anyway. Beyond brats are really tasty and resemble brats a lot, but they're too expensive and I don't necessarily need my sosiges to tast like meat. So usually I go for Tofurkey because they're the cheapest!
I bought some Beyond sausages a few weeks ago because they were half off at my local Publix and I thought they tasted pretty much just like how I remember brats tasting (though I haven't had a brat in like 4 years). I typically eat a primarily whole food plant diet so sausages aren't really my thing, but the Beyond sausages get a thumbs up for me. I'd say they are more convincing as brats than the Beyond burgers are as hamburgers (although I think the latest version of the Beyond burger is pretty yummy).
I SO appreciate the ingredients lists. I’m hugely sensitive to all corn derivatives, as well as gluten. Taste tests are far less important to me than knowing my food won’t hurt me. My choice on that basis is the Beyond Meat brat. Since it dried out and deteriorated in cooking, I’ll steam it first, then sear it to finish. Thanks for informing my decision and prep!
Field roast apple tastes like a real sausage. It's sooo flippin good. The only thing I wish vegan sausages had was the pop and the moisture.
So awesome, I'd bet on Beyond, but I haven't tried any of the others
YES!! Beyond for the win
Easily the best!
Very well done taste test (other than cooking them all on the same pan cause I was afraid of one affecting the flavor of the others due to the ‘juice’ that one may “leak out”). Thanks for sharing!
I thought of that is same exact issue with him cooking them all in the same pan.
Hands down I love the beyond meat Italian sausages. I use them in a lot of dishes.
Fantastic review!!!!! Thanks. I’ve been skeptical about which to but while I read the beyond sausage is so good that restaurants are buying them, I still wasn’t sure till now. Texture a plus!
Love the videos! Keep them coming!
The lightlife hotdogs are the bomb. They taste just like the ones at my little league games when I was a kid!
interesting, Field Roast is our family favorite. The Italian is far superior to the apple sage you tested. I would give the FR Italian or Chipotle a go. 😎. I haven’t tried Beyond sausages yet but will give them a whirl. The whole idea of veggie foods mimicking the ‘real thing’ is sort of silly. It is predicated on the idea that vegetarians ‘miss’ meat, um... we don’t. In our family it doesn’t matter if it looks or tastes like the ‘real thing’ as long as it tastes good and has the right flavor profile to complement the family meal. That a lot of vegan sausage money sitting on your cutting board! Thx!
Great video! I absoulutely love most of Field Roast products. Especially all their sausage products; including the hot dogs. I've been consuming them for years now; when I don't have the time to make my own. Beyond Meat is also fantastic. With the Brats I usually cook about a little less than half-way in the pan. Then I would move them into a foil baking pan with a dark german beer in it. Cover tightly, and pop in a 300 degree oven for about another 7-10 minutes. Greatness!
I also wanted to note. That there's a german company called "Viana" which makes really great tasting sausages, and products in general.
I find the Tofurky sausage is best in a soup. It soaks up some of the liquid and becomes less bread like and more bouncy.
Thank you so much. As always details, details, details, you are awesome!!! And very helpful to us all. When I boil the beyond sausage there is a lot of lifelike grease in the water that normally comes from hot links. There is some of the gelatin casing that will come off in the pot of water
Gelatin?! Dear god. That’s not even vegetarian, much less vegan!
Great review , thanks for sharing with us your thoughts about this sausage !
Wow! Great info, many thanks.
Love Vegan food tastings. Do more videos like this comparing the same mock meats from different companies. It helps when deciding which to buy👍🌱
I grew up on morningstar veggie meats. Recently, I try to make everything from scratch. I LOVE those field roast apple sage sausages! They are incredible but i like to pan sear them, then cut them into slices and crisp up the pieces on all sides.
Damn I wish we had all these options!!
I grew up on Morningstar links. I'm assuming modern plant-based sausage has far surpassed Morningstar however I had one of the Beyond brats a couple weeks ago and thought it tasted like sawdust. I've loved your other reviews so I'm surprised that our opinions on that differ quite so much.
Barrie Lynn yeah the Beyond Brat isn’t great
The hot Italian beyond sausage is the best sausage! But I never cook with them, I always cook them separate and then add to my dish after cooking
Oh gosh that's funny. I'm not a vegan or vegetarian but my friend is and got me onto that tofurky sausage one and I actually like it a lot! I always make it with spicy broccoli and rice
VEGGIE SAUSAGE! Love them! They stick to the pan so much though...the ones I tried are probably skinless.
The ones are get are from Aldi. "Earth Grown Italian Meatless Sausage."
Maybe your pan is the issue
@@nowonmetube Might be. I cook mine in an Orgreenics Ceramic non stick pan, but even with oil, after less than 30 seconds my sausages start tearing into chunks when I try to turn them.
@@christophermorin9036 how old is that pan? That's usually a sign that the non stock coating wore off
@@nowonmetube it's a green ceramic coated pan. The ceramic is what makes it nonstick. It's still coated and hardly any nicks.
Tofu sausage apparently just sticks like hell.
@@christophermorin9036 I doubt it's non stick if stuff sticks. I guess the pan is too old and doesn't hold up anymore. That's usually the case after 1-3 months of use.
Ok i will try field roast . nice video, i liked your edit 👍 so many great recipies and taste test. Awesome 👍
Would you mind making a playlist of your store-bought comparisons and taste tests? They're hard to find among all your videos since they don't have a consistent naming convention, and I'm way too lazy to make the stuff from your other videos from scratch. I got the Beyond Sausage after watching this and loved it.
Thank you!
Awesome vids! Thanks a lot
Great video as always. If you're looking for something new to try I recommend giving Soy Curls a shot. They're pretty great and versatile.
Oh man, I'm só early!! Love your video's man, I've seen them all atleast 2 times!
You are awesome!!!! Thank you so much for that and for watching and all your comments! It means a lot.
LOVE the NoEvil sausages. I chop them up for my spaghetti sauces. Dee-lish. The chorizo version (El Zapatista) is also super good. Especially chopped and added to a tofu scramble breakfast wrap!
Not a gain of Light Life, Tofurkey, or the Field Roast versions. Love the Gardein as well.
m1cajah #noevilfoods is a union busting company that has been chastised by the Zapatistas for using the pro worker Zapatistas movement while denying their own worker’s rights.
Andrew Miller Don’t care, I’m not pro-union.
Love your channel !! Can you do a vegan lunch meat one👀
a little expensive but *Field Roast* is my favorite of these. I've tried all of these except No Evil - but all that salt is a deal break for me. Field Roast #1
Trying field roast Italian sausage right now. It’s okay. I would use it for spaghetti, but it’s not my favorite.
Thanks for the video!!
Beyond is my favorite so I think it's going to win.
I haven't tried that No Evil, but we love Beyond Sweet Italian. Their breakfast sausage is our favorite though. I make them with chickpea flour eggless patties, and violife cheddar on English muffins for a delicious breakfast sandwich. You'll have to try the breakfast sausage.
Thanks for the recipe inspiration!
I just love your content so much🤗🤗
Thank you so much!!
I like splitting them and crisping the inside. Field Roast is usually my favorite. I kinda prefer my meat substitutes to not be too much like meat
111% agree
I agree this is why I love Field Roast vs Beyond Meat(too much like meat), Italian Sausage, Chipotle for Chili is my fave!
Everyone is saying they like this one i want to try it. Gonna buy them tomorrow.
The Beyond meat line is amazing! This is the best time to be plant based!
Im liking the second opinions of Monica and your friends. Really shows you know your stuff
Need to try sweet earth!! I trust that brand with my life. The green Chile and cheddar sausage is delicious
I've had the "No Evil" one, I noticed that it has quite a bit of fennel. It's pretty good, maybe a little dry though.
I know it's been done before but I'd love to see a burger one - you're much mroe thorough than most!
I love vegan taste tests! Thank you.
“Aadya e” posted a comment just two comments after yours wherein he/she stated that the Beyond sausage links have casings made from gelatin! If that is true, then they aren’t even vegetarian, much less vegan. 🤢
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 really?
@@doomsday7308
That’s apparently what the commenter said that I was referring to, because I am not the sort to make things up or lie in comment sections, but I will tell you that I never took the time to research if it was true or not, so I honestly don’t know if they were accurate or not regarding gelatin being used.
I have never eaten the Beyond sausage product myself, so that is probably why I never researched it.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 ok thanks for the info
@@doomsday7308
So I just looked it up… Because I was curious after you commented to me.
I looked up Beyond meat’s ingredients for their brat sausages and Italian hot sausages (I don’t know if they have any other sausage kinds other than that, but those are the two that I looked up).
In the ingredients list that they provide on their website, they say that in both sausage products they use something called “calcuim alginate” casings.
When I looked “calcium alginate” up on Wikipedia, it says that usually that is derived from brown algae/seaweed, and not gelatin.
Where I think the commenter got confused is where Wikipedia says in the very beginning:
_“Calcium alginate is a water-insoluble, _*_GELATINOUS,_*_ cream-coloured substance that can be created through the addition of aqueous calcium chloride to aqueous sodium alginate.”_
Either that commenter was being disingenuous intentionally, or they are bad at English and thus didn’t understand what the description was actually saying.
I just thought I would post that information here in case anyone else comes across this thread and was too lazy to look it up, like I was (and probably you were as well haha). ;)
Now try imposible sausage! Bought it yesterday and I’m so anxious to try. I already know it’s gonna be good tho
I agree with your assessments.
Beyond is the best but with that said I've found that the field roast actually benefit from being deep fried. You can get most of if not all that bready flavor cooked out of it.
Deep frying it will make it sooo much more unhealthy though.
Great content! Can you review the "Simple Truth" brand? I personally love it!
Good video. Constructive addition for you. When doing the nutrition information, read out the carbs, but the fiber and sugar content are very important, especially if you're managing diabetes.
Hi Sauce stache, have you tried the Yves sausage, my favourite one is the onion and kale, it’s pretty good.
I agree the Beyond Brat has the best flavor and texture, so far that has been my favorite. Haven't tried the last one yet.
Great videos
i never tried the beyond sausage, if there is some at my grocery store i will pick some next time!
My family and I are in love with the field roast sausage, it's our go to for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My only grip is the sodium level is kinda high for all of them... still love'em
I feel like a high sodium content is necessary for processed foods especially sausage though
Which flavor you get?
Beyond are pretty decent, cooked up some Bratwurst Beyonds on charcoal BBQ. Amazing.
The Beyond is just too good!!!
Are you going to do sausage patties or crumbles? (Or have you already?) Morning Star Farms sausage patties are my favorite.
They are my favorite too!!
Granted, they are the only kind I’ve ever eaten over the last couple of decades though _LOL._
Their sausage links are fantastic as well (as are their breakfast strips [fake bacon] and fake ground beef crumble).
I just got Lightlife’s sausage patties and links today from my local food pantry to try for the first time though (as well as some of their other fake meat products), so we’ll see!
I honestly don’t think that any brand could beat Morningstar Farms’ versions of sausages, so my expectation is extremely low!!
P.S. He said near the beginning of this video that he was going to do breakfast sausage patties in a video in the future. He probably has already done it by now.
My new favourite channel.
I tried Beyond Meat brats last week and I like it better than meat brats. There was always something about meat brats I didn't like. I cooked it on a skillet with some green pepper and onion and then toasted the bun in the same pan. YUM! I also tried cooking it with jalapenos. It was really hot so I would probably use a smaller amount next time.
I like how he skips "Water" on the ingredients.😂
I recently tried the Beyond sausage sandwich at Dunkin and I think it's pretty good.
Me, too!
Beyond brat is my favorite for texture, but the cost is a bit much for me, otherwise I go for the tofurky sausages. I don't mind the uniform texture since I like the taste, plus I usually cut them up for dishes.
Yes! Beyond “meats” are crazy expensive!
Of course some of that has to do with the fact that they aren’t subsidized like the livestock industry is, but still, you can find other fake meats that are less expensive than Beyond “meat” is!
My absolute favorite is tofurkey sausages and taco chorizo meat. Also field roast apple sage sausage
THANKYOU FOR THIS VIDEO BUBBA GOD BLESS YOU MAN AND BLESS YOU ON YOUR GOALS ALSO
I like British sausages as I grew up in England. Cauldron foods does great vegetarian sausages, Cumberland and Lincolnshire. Quorn too, and Linda McCartney. Don't know if there are vegan versions now.
taste test challenge for you.
Amy's tofu scramble, breakfast wrap...if you can do it...I would love it
I strongly suggest the lightlife gimme lean. Never tried that other kind, but people always love this one when I give it to them, and I honestly still haven't tried another type that I do like. I grew up with the lightlife gimme lean, and I gotta say. It's amazing.
Thanks for doing this! I LOVE No Evil products! My favorite is their chorizo. I wish you hadn't covered up the serving size. That makes a BIG difference. Also, you didn't include the saturated fat values for these products. I know Beyond products have sat-fat because they use coconut oil. Just curious why those exclusions?
Good points!
tofurky was always my favorite specifically the Italian sausage. I've fried it but I use to steam it and liked that consistency most.
I think I’ve tried all those sausages except for No Evil. I agree with your results except that I love Tofurkey sausages. I tried beyond meat hot Italian for the first time tonight, made vegan sausage casserole and it was great, I love it
Fred Meyers (or Krogers, depending on where you live) has some great chorizo sausages that I like to have w/ hash browns and tofu scramble
I've always been a fan of field roast products. :)
800mg of sodium is really high. It used to be that most meat bratwurst or Italian meat sausages would have around 800 to 900, even over 1000 sometimes, but nowadays, most have cut that back a bit since everyone is reading labels. A full meat Johnsonville bratwurst is down to 680mg, and the Walmart knockoff is 730mg. The Costco hotdog is 870mg, but it's also really huge (120 grams compared to No Evil's 85 grams) So a vegan version with 800mg is quite a bit more than even the meat ones. That is surprising.
I crumble up the Beyond, and use it like a ground pork in my breakfast tacos. Potatoes, onions, just egg, and beyond sausage.
Field Roast apple sage... not just the best sausage, but one of the best things I've ever eaten--vegan or otherwise. Put some gourmet mustard on it...😸
I love field roast apple maple breakfast sausage!
I should consider that No Evil brand. My sodium levels are regularly checked because of my meds, and it hovers right around the bottom of the healthy range and has dipped below. If I end up liking it it might be helpful.
When you do the breakfast sausage, Gardein has a really good one. Hard to find (at least where I'm at) but hella tasty
My favorite that I’ve never wavered from for decades now is Morningstar Farms’ faux breakfast sausage patties. Soooo yummy!!
Their sausage links are fantastic as well (as are their breakfast strips [fake bacon] and fake ground beef crumble).
I just got Lightlife’s sausage patties and links today from my local food pantry though, to try for the first time, so we’ll see!
I honestly don’t think that any brand could beat Morningstar Farms’ versions though, so my expectation is extremely low!!
I loathed the Tofurkey sausage and almost gave up on vegan sausage for good. I'm so glad for this taste test - will definitely pick up Beyond on my next grocery run!
Tofurky or the Field Roast 👍 Well, I lost.. 😂🤣
You were asking recently what we liked. UA-cam just posted this for me. Could you do more of these and update them? thank you
Boom!!! On it! thank you!!!
I can't find the Field Roast classic frankfurters anywhere in Miami, FL now (August 2022).. usually would buy at Walmart and Publix. They stop making them?
Hey when you do try the vegan sausage patties you have to include LightLife GimmeLean Sausage and you should try duplicating the recipe in a future video.
You probably should have used Italian flavor for each brand for a more balanced taste test. I have some No Evil in the fridge but haven't tried it yet. Now I am very curious. Thank you.
Which sausage cooks best when cut into slices before frying in a pan? I'm thinking of making a sausage and rice dish, thanks!
I just tried the Beyond Meat brat. Grilled some onions up...a little mustard and ketchup...I could NOT believe how accurate the flavor and texture was. If someone had handed it to me and didn't tell me it was a fake brat I never would have known. The only difference I could detect was it was a little less juicy than the real thing.