What actually is quorn?!
What actually is quorn?
We occasionally buy the quorn sausages and fillets but just wondered what it is actually made from, and is it good for you?
Answers: It's made from a fungus..like mushrooms. It's fine occasionally..but it's still processed so too much is never good. It's a great source of protein without the cruelty and without the fat. They cut the little rubbers off the end of pencils & then poach them for 12 hours then put them in a blender & hey presto!
Thats what they taste like anyway I dinnae ken Quorn is made from, amongst other refined ingredients, Soya. Its not as good for you as just buying soya on its own however, you need less preparation when you buy Quorn. soya protein. Fungus and soya. Quorn? is the brand name of a premium line of all-natural, meat-free frozen foods. The Quorn brand has been sold in the UK since 1985, and since that time has become the #1 retail brand of meat-free foods in the world! And since its US launch in 2002, Quorn products have become the best-selling frozen meat-free brand in natural food stores*!
Quorn products deliver great taste, fantastic quality and a wide variety of items to meet the demands of on-the-go lifestyles.
You can depend on Quorn products to always be meat-free and soy-free.
There are believed to be over 600,000 varieties of fungi in the world, some of which are the most sought after foods like varieties of mushrooms, truffles and morels. The principle ingredient in all Quorn products is mycoprotein (“myco” is Greek for “fungi”). The mycoprotein comes from Fusarium venenatum, which was originally discovered growing in a field in Buckinghamshire, England. In the late 1960s, initial product development began, soon recognizing mycoprotein’s potential as an efficient and nutritious protein source..........
Or it could be people like Soylent Green it used to tell a story on the back of a pack of sauseges that some guy was wondering i a filed and found a new breed of mushroom. and made stuff from it. You may have heard a lot recently about the special ingredients such as the “good bacteria” in probiotic drinks and yoghurts, or superfoods, such as blueberries and broccoli etc.
All Quorn products contain mycoprotein. Mycoprotein is a nutritious member of the fungi family, as are mushrooms and truffles. There are lots of great things about mycoprotein which very few people know, so here are just a few:
- Mycoprotein is a fungus which contains high quality protein, enabling us to offer an alternative, purely vegetarian source of protein to meat
- Mycoprotein is naturally low in fat
- Mycoprotein also contains very few calories, so we can bring you foods which tastes great but which don’t max out on the calorie content
- Mycoprotein also contains essential dietary fibre, which as we all know, helps to maintain a healthy digestive system
- Mycoprotein doesn’t contain any cholesterol whatsoever, so eating Quorn products as part of a balanced, low fat diet can help to maintain normal cholesterol levels, which can help keep your heart healthy
search for quorn on google good question might eat more myself now. It is a mushroom protein. A nutritious mycoprotein of the fungi family. Mushroom protein and egg, for the most part.
I heard a rumour that they used not to use free range eggs, though... which isn't what your average veggie would be happy to buy. D'oh! its a fungal based product substitute for meat, its all natural so yes its healthy and good, go to google and type in what is quorn. It comes from a mushroom derivative Joey - this will explain it much better than I could:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/quorn... It's made from soya beans, I personally think it tastes awful, can't beat meat, I had crocodile last week , it was yummy, tasted like really good cod lush and thick, venison is great too, kangaroo is like liver which I have had in red wine, pigeon pie is scrummy too , yes I know i'm going in about meat, but hey lets face it people have been hunting and eating meat since they came on this earth so thumbs up to MEAT, i feel so sorry for you veggies out there what a bore!!!! It's mushroom protein I think... well after it's been compacted etc obviously Quorn
Quorn logo Quorn is the leading brand of mycoprotein food product in the UK[1] and a leading brand elsewhere. Mycoprotein is the generic term for protein-rich foodstuffs made from processed edible fungus.
Quorn is produced as both a cooking ingredient and a range of ready meals. Quorn is sold (largely in Europe but also in other countries) as a healthy food and an alternative to meat, especially for vegetarians. As it uses egg white as a binder, it is not suitable for vegans.
History
A shortage of protein-rich foods by the 1980s was predicted during the 1950s.[2] In response to this, many research programmes were undertaken to utilise single-cell biomass as an animal feed. Contrary to the trend, Lord Rank instructed the Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) Research Centre to investigate converting starch (the waste product of cereal manufacturing undertaken by RHM) into a protein-rich food for human consumption.
Following an extensive screening process, the filamentous fungus Fusarium venenatum, discovered in 1967[3], was isolated as the best candidate. In 1980, RHM was given permission to sell mycoprotein for human consumption after a ten-year evaluation programme - probably making Quorn one of the most tested foods in existence.
The initial retail product was produced in 1985 by Marlow Foods (named after RHM's headquarters in Marlow, Buckinghamshire) - a joint venture between RHM and Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) who provided a fermenter left vacant from their abandoned single-cell feed programme. Patents for growing and processing the fungus, and other intellectual properties in the brand, were invested in Marlow by the two partners. Although the food sold well in the initial test market of the RHM staff canteen, the large supermarket chains were unconvinced until Lord Sainsbury, owner of supermarket Sainsburys agreed to stock the novel food. Quorn entered widespread distribution in the UK in 1994, and was introduced to other parts of Europe in the 1990s and to the United states in 2002.[4]
Although the mycoprotein was originally conceived as a protein-rich food supplement for the predicted global famine, the food shortage never materialised. In 1989 a survey revealed almost half of the UK population was reducing their intake of red meats and a fifth of young people were vegetarians. As a result, Marlow Foods decided to sell Quorn as a new healthy meat analogue which was free of animal fats and cholesterol.
When ICI hived off its biological products divisions from the core chemical business in 1993, Marlow became part of the Astra Zeneca group, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. In 2003 Zeneca sold Marlow, the Quorn business, and associated trademarks and patents, to private equity firm Montagu Private Equity for ￡70 million.[5] Two years later food giant Premier Foods acquired Marlow for ￡172 million.[6]
Marlow sells Quorn brand mycoprotein in ready-to-cook forms (as cubes and a form resembling minced meat), and later introduced a range of chilled vegetarian meals based on Quorn. Its range includes pizzas, lasagna, cottage pie, and formed Quorn products resembling sliced meat, hotdogs, and burgers. As of 2006 it is available in stores in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, the US, and Switzerland. In the UK it enjoys around 60% of the meat-replacement food market, with annual sales of around ￡95 million[5]. Until December 2003 Quorn had been available in France.
So now you know. soya protein just quicker cause it's already partly prepared like most ready meals!
and like most ready meals, not as healthy for you as actual soya products. Quorn is a mycotoxin bacteria that is generated in huge vats. The qourn industry relates the toxin to being like that of mushrooms, but mushrooms are a natural product-quorn is not. I find the whole concept of it repulsive. As for whether its good for you or not, I dont think its been around long enough to know. Just another artificially processed "food" I tried like heck to find a photo of Quorn being made - what the ACTUAL mycoprotein looked like, what the vats full of the stuff look like and all to no avail. It creeped me out. What the heck are they hiding??? I couldn't even finish the box of Quorn patties I had in my freezer.
How do people keep saying it's SOY when it clearly is NOT SOY?
It makes me nervous anyway. I wouldn't call it health food. Besides, it has eggs in it. Quorn is NOT made from SOY people! Most (possibly all) of their products say SOY-FREE right on the front. Quorn is a fungi, similar to a mushroom.
http://www.quorn.us//cmpage.aspx?section...
Other links within the above website provide TONS of info on what exactly mycoprotein is and how it's made. No pics though... but then again... do we REALLY wanna see it? And remember... tofu, tempeh, etc. are all fermented too, as is yogurt, booze, etc. Watch how just about ANY of our food is made and you'll second-guess whether it's truly edible or not! I would laugh my t1ts off if it turned out to be animal based.
I dont think its especially bad for you but last time I ate it I didnt poo for 3 days myco protein comes from mushrooms qourn is soya protein, mushroom,& egg. Its very good for you as it has a very low fat content.
you get qourn mince, burgers, sausages & you can also get quorn pieces that you can put in stir fries or curry, as well as a range of sandwich 'meat' yeah its really good for you and its made from mushrooms