Plant-Based Eggs | Guide to Vegan Egg Alternatives | Luxiders Magazine
WHICH INGREDIENTS CAN BE FOUND IN PLANT-BASED EGG ALTERNATIVES?
Plant-based egg alternative ingredient blends and stand-alone egg replacers available for retail sale are made of various ingredients, including whole algal flour, whole algal protein, modified cellulose, cellulose, gellan gum, calcium lactate, nutritional yeast black salt, potato starch, tapioca flour and many more. Some of them come in liquid form and require refrigeration; others instead come in powder form.
WHICH COMPANIES ARE PRODUCING THEM?
Several food companies are producing egg replacements all over the world. Here we have gathered up some of the most influential ones.
ZERO EGG
Run by CEO Liron Nimrodi, Israeli start-up Zero Egg developed an all-purpose plant-based egg alternative called “EGG Basics”. It’s made with soy protein isolate, peaflour, and cellulose fibres. This replacement is formulated to be utilized to prepare scrambles, omelettes, frittatas, quiches, egg bites, cookies, sauces. It has a 1-year shelf-life and a high yield, equivalent to 86 eggs per pound. According to the Life Cycle Assessment by Sher consulting & training ltd, Zero Egg’s production requires 93% less water and 92% less land than conventional eggs while emitting 59% fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Zero egg is available in the United States, Israel, the EU, and the United Kingdom to foodservice operators and food manufacturers.
EAT JUST
The formula behind Eat Just, Inc.’s Just Egg, a liquid egg replaced, took five years of experiments. Still, in the end, they found the ingredient they were looking for: mung bean, a protein-rich 4,500 years old legume vastly unutilized outside of Asia. Like fellow Californian vegan food enterprise Beyond meat, the San Francisco-based food company employs this legume as a form of plant-based protein. The result is a Non-GMO, cholesterol-free egg replacement that requires 98% less water has a 93% smaller carbon footprint, and uses 86% less land than conventional animal sources.
FOLLOW YOUR HEART
Follow Your Heart, the Southern California food company that produces Vegenaise, also makes VeganEgg™ a gluten-free egg replacer with Organic Soymilk Powder from Soybeans, modified cellulose, and gellan gum
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