Vegan Bacon Bits (TVP Recipe) (2024)

FAQs

What is a good vegan substitute for bacon? ›

Shiitake mushrooms are a great alternative to bacon for vegetarians and vegans alike. Their velvety texture allows them to soak up any seasonings or marinades added to them with ease. Also, Shiitake mushroom stems are fairly rubbery, giving them a likeness to real bacon.

So what are these bits actually made from? They're basically just flavored soy protein chunks. The texturized soy flour gives that same meaty texture you get from tofu or textured vegetable protein. This is an easy (and most likely affordable) way to make a shelf-stable version of our favorite cured meat.

For that crunchy bacon-y topping, look no further than fried shallots. Roughly diced and mixed with salt, butter, and some olive oil, they're perfect alternatives for your usual bacon bits on salads or casseroles. If you fry them to their golden-brown texture, they'll be almost indistinguishable from the real thing!

A blend of textured soy flour, hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt, natural and artificial flavours, vitamins, and minerals that add a hickory smoked bacon taste and texture to a variety of hot and cold dishes.

Coconut, mushroom, and tempeh strips become smoky, salty, crispy plant-based bacon alternatives.

Hooray Foods' plant-based bacon has less sodium and fat than real bacon but tastes a whole lot like the real stuff.

Vegan bacon could therefore be seen as a better alternative to pig bacon, but that's not to say it's a healthy food product. Plant-based meats are ultra processed foods, and they also tend to be high in salt. They are, however, lower in saturated fat, and don't contain the same preservatives as pig bacon.

For this recipe, I used a hickory-smoke as it's closest to real bacon flavour. Look for liquid smoke in the condiment section of your grocery store. Maple syrup: Any kind will do. Smoked paprika: This adds another smoky undertone.

While neither brands are especially sinister, both types of bacon bits are highly processed—which definitely isn't good to shovel into your body. So if you're craving bacon bits, it's probably best to crumble nitrate-free strips of the real deal, or try making coconut bacon bits if you don't eat meat.

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Smoky, crunchy, and salty, these fake-bacon bits taste great on baked and mashed potatoes, sprinkled over split-pea soup or corn chowder, tossed into salads, or as a tasty topping on your next slice of pizza.

How long do fake bacon bits last? ›

Ingredients. Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Sugar, Sodium Nitrite, Natural Smokeflavour, Dextrose, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Erythorbate, Sodiumascorbate. We do our best to be accurate with respect to the advertised ingredients, nutritional information, product images and descriptions listed on our app/website.

Simulations of pork which don't have any actual pork or pork by-products are entirely permissible. So Bac-Os, which are artificially flavored tvp and contain no animal products at all, and vegetarian imitation bacon are both OK for Muslims to eat assuming they're otherwise halal.

What are bacon bits made of? Many brands of bacon bits are vegan because the main ingredient is actually textured vegetable protein (soy protein), typically soy flour, which is produced from ground soybeans. Brands choose to use soy flour because it is typically cheaper than bacon, and has a much longer shelf life.

Vegan Bacon Brands

Every good natural foods store carries at least one variety of vegan bacon. Here are some top brands: Lightlife: Smart Bacon. Sweet Earth: Benevolent Bacon.

MorningStar Farms® Bacon Strips 4.0 out of 5 stars, average rating value. Read 179 Reviews. Same page link. With an inviting taste and irresistible texture, MorningStar Farms® Veggie Bacon Strips cook up crisp and crunchy.