Do you eat Quorn?

[Yorkiegirl]

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We like it. Sausages, mince for chili or lasagne, burgers, nuggets, fillets, etc.

DD1 is a vegetarian and I am a non-meat-eater but eat fish. But the whole family likes quorn and it is so healthy!

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Yuk - grim stuff! I was veggie for about 8 years, due to a desire to avoid foul cheap meat at university plus general convenience as so many friends were veggie. Never any moral grounding to my choice. I always found quorn a bizarre thing. Pretending to be meat, and yet not. Now I like my steak rare, and am a well and truly lapsed meat fiend. Please don't be offended veggies. We still eat veggie at 80-90% of our meals, but not pretend-meat.

I used to buy it until I realised the Food & Drug Administration in the US has not approved it and it has been linked to migraines and possibly other conditions (can't remember the details now.) Do you know it's made not of "mushroom" but dodgy mold/fungus? Gross! Just buy tofu and freeze it for a mince texture, or press/dehydrate it for cutlets/broiling.

Like I say, fungus. Not mushrooms. Remember that outcry about it?

Oooooohhhh if tehy could inject it with a bit of fat, a bit of texture and make it smell like bacon frying I would be a devotee but Iam afraid it is yuck has no texture and you have to add loads for any tatse!! - Give me a nice rare bit of fillet any day or a bacon sarnie with proper bacon and white bread and butter or a nice lamb chop with new potoatoes and mint jelly!!! - oooooohhhhh yummy yummy!!

(Tried to trick DP when we were on slimming world once with Quorn Chilli and he ate it knowing what it was and I had to try and eat it to pretend it was nice meat and gagged at nearly every spoonful!!!)

i hate the texture too. and don't understand the logic behind eating fake meat, either you want to eat meat or you dont

It was discovered growing on the sediment of old oil in those huge storage tanks at ICI. It's not a mushroom

Quorn could have caused a severe allergic reaction, researchers suggest.
There have been concerns that the meat substitute could cause stomach upsets.

But Swiss and German doctors have detailed the case of an asthmatic who had a severe allergic reaction to the food.

The patient, a 41-year-old man with a long history of asthma, developed a severe skin reaction, including blistering, and suffered an asthma attack an hour after eating Quorn.

Intolerance to Quorn is much less frequent than to other foods such as soya and dairy products

Food Standards Agency statement
Scientists carried out skin prick and food reaction tests and laboratory analysis to confirm what had provoked the allergic reaction.

Quorn was the only food to which he proved to be allergic.

The researchers suggest the attack was probably caused by a reaction between the "mycoprotein" in Quorn and a human allergen in the patient.

Protein

A spokeswoman for the Food Standard Agency told BBC News Online it would not be taking any immediate action, but added: "As with any new research that's published, we will be assessing this paper and any implications it may have for our advice on Quorn."

On its website, the FSA currently states: "There have been some reports of intolerance to Quorn, but this is not surprising, because it has a high protein content (allergens are usually proteins).

"Intolerance to Quorn is much less frequent than to other foods such as soya and dairy products."

Statistics show adverse reactions are reported for one in 146,000 people who ate Quorn, compared to one in 35 who ate shellfish and one in 350 who ate soya.

The US Centre for Science in the Public Interest campaigns for Quorn to be withdrawn because of the reported allergic reactions.

It claims to have received over 600 complaints from consumers who said they had suffered reactions including vomiting and diarrhoea after eating the product.

Michael Jacobsen, the CSPI's director, told a national newspaper he was shocked that the FSA had "nonchalantly allowed this product to remain on the market, given the ample evidence of the misery it causes.

"As the medical evidence mounts, one hopes that the FSA just doesn't wait for someone to die from Quorn."

AstraZeneca, the parent company of Marlow Foods which makes Quorn, refused to comment.

SEE DEVILS FOOD - YOU ARE BETTER OFF EATING THE REAL JUICY THING!! (I mean who's allergic to meat??)

I used to eat Quorn until I realised that it was this that gave me an 'itchy feeling' all over....But I did like it, but not the price so I only used it on 'special ocassions'.
Can you still get it then..have not seen it for ages?

it's okay but a bit of a wasted opportunity to eat something delicious.
I have never found myself thinking "ooh, I could go a nice piece of quorn"

However compared to Tofu (WHOSE idea was it to eat that stuff?) it is lovely.

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I'm veggie but don't eat Quorn because it's made with battery eggs. I'm not keen on the idea of fake meat, and I also don't like the idea of eating mould.

Yes - love it,love it, love it!!!

I eat Quorn pieces, fillets, mince, sausages, meatballs.

Fillets wrapped in bacon are yummy, quorn chilli, shepherds pie, curry, stir fry, sausages and mash and beans, spag bol,

On slimming world it is also a speedy food.

Did I mention that I love it?

Yes - love it,love it, love it!!!

I eat Quorn pieces, fillets, mince, sausages, meatballs.

Fillets wrapped in bacon are yummy, quorn chilli, shepherds pie, curry, stir fry, sausages and mash and beans, spag bol,

On slimming world it is also a speedy food.

Did I mention that I love it?

WWB - don't you eat blue cheese? I love blue cheese - mould or not

WigWamBam you have a good point there with the battery eggs. I mean most vegetarians don´t eat battery...

We eat it... just abit because it is fungus based and supposedly it is not good to have too much fungus. I love meat substitutes as I like the taste of meat but don´t want to eat lots of flesh.

Iota - I hate blue cheese. In fact, I hate cheese with a passion!

Quorn is fantastic stuff - too much of any one thing can be bad but pur-lease, Quorn any day over chemically pumped, farm reared (and hey, dead!) animals.... eugh!

Quorn burgers are ok as are sausages. But mince, no thanks, rather have the real thing. Not tried anything else.

Tinker - I wonder who thought, that looks like it could be edible.

beansprout, they use a fair old mix of chemicals to produce Quorn though. I won't use it until it's made with free range eggs.

I can't understand why a veggie would want to eat something that looks like meat.

I tried the quorn burgers and they went down a treat with dd1 and myself. Same for the Quorn Southern Style chicken burgers.

then I tried the Quorn chicken pieces and they were awful, they tasted really strong and neither dd1 or I liked them so the rest of the packet went in the bin.

Haven't been brave enough to try the quorn mince yet though because of that experience.

Having just read all the other posts here I don't think I'll buy it again, I didn't know that it could cause problems or that it was a mould found growing on old oil, eewwww

I eat a far bit of Quorn - I'm not wholly veggie but just really dislike the taste and texture of most meat products.

Re: Quorn coming from a mould, so does blue cheeses and cheeses such as Brie. Mushrooms are fungi as well.

I think I am a bit too particular with food these days as I have seem how the majority of it is made.

My husband has seen how Quorn is made, which is one of the reasons I don't eat it. It's a chemically created fungus, very heavily processed, and I prefer not to eat too much processed food. Or too many chemicals!