The Best Plant-based Things To Happen This Week
The Best Things to Happen This Week
At Kompas, we do a happy dance for each and every piece of good news that comes through the interwebs regarding the latest and greatest happenings in the plant-based industry. Get your read on, we’ll be over here dancin’ 💃🏼🕺
A&W Launches Beyond Meat Breakfast Sausage
Beyond Meat® continues to take over the fast food world by adding their Beyond Breakfast Sausage® to A&W’s breakfast menu this week. Customers in Canada have the option to order the Sausage & Egger with Beyond Meat breakfast sausage, egg, and cheddar cheese on a burger bun or English muffin.
100% plant-based? Not to worry, you can order the Sausage & Veggie: Beyond Meat breakfast sausage, lettuce, and tomato on a burger bun or English muffin. Not in the mood for breakfast? Order the Beyond Burger with lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles, ketchup, mustard, and order without mayo.
Morning Star Farms Will Be 100% Plant-Based By 2021
Morningstar Farms, a pioneer of meatless products since 1975, plans to eschew all animal products from their vast line of frozen meat alternatives including veggie burgers, chick’n nuggets, corn dogs, crumbles, and breakfast sausages. By eliminating eggs from their products, 300 million eggs will be spared each year, saving millions of chickens bred for egg production in the process. The following products are currently vegan and 100% plant-based:
Buffalo Chik Patties
Buffalo Wings
Chik’n Nuggets
BBQ Chik’n Nuggets
Meal Starters Chik’n Strips
Meat Lovers Vegan Burgers (¼ pound)
Veggie Lovers Vegan Burgers (¼ pound)
Meal Starters Pulled Pork
Roasted Garlic and Quinoa Burgers
Spicy Indian Veggie Burgers
White Bean Chili Burgers
Meal Starters Steak Strips
Find Morningstar Farms products near you here.
Chipotle Adds New Vegan Menu Item
Chipotle has offered an extensive number of plant-based options, but recently they made ordering vegan simple. Their new Vegan Lifestyle Bowl features sofritas — Chipotle’s signature spiced shredded tofu — brown rice, black beans, tomato and corn salsas, and lettuce 🥙 We’d add guacamole ’cause we’re extra like that.
Craving a burrito? Good news: all Chipotle tortillas are vegan.
Just avoid the meat / sour cream / cheese (obvi), and skip the vinaigrette if you don’t do honey.
NotCo Raises $30M from Investors Including Jeff Bezos
When tech meets food, incredible things can happen. Chile-based startup NotCo is using AI to renovate the dairy industry, molecularly analyzing foods to recreate flavors and textures sans animal products. NotCo’s Not Mayo is made from potatoes, peas, basil, and canola oil and is currently available in over 1,000 stores throughout Chile.
The $30 million raise was led by The Craftory investment fund, including Jeff Bezo’s Bezos Expeditions. NotCo plans to broaden their product line with plant-based yogurt, milk, and ice cream.
Beyond Meat Launches Beyond Beef
Beyond Meat® extends their product line to include Beyond Beef®, joining an all star lineup of plant-based protein including Beyond Burger®, Beyond Sausage® (Brat Original and Hot Italian flavors), Beyond Beef® Crumbles (Feisty and Beefy flavors). Beyond Beef will be instrumental for restauranteurs and home cooks developing plant-based meals like meatballs, meatloaf, tacos, and more.
Beyond Meat also recently launched their Go Beyond campaign featuring 14 World renowned athletes including plant-based NBA All Stars Kyrie Irving, Chris Paul, and Javale McGee.
Plant-based Meal Delivery Veestro Expands with 100% Recyclable Packaging
Not just another meal delivery service, Veestro offers customers 100% plant-based, organic, fully cooked meals for everyone. Veestro is making their mark with over 50 convenient frozen breakfasts, lunches, and dinners to choose from; shipped directly to any doorstep in the US. With their expansion they’ve also switched to 100% recyclable materials, differentiating themselves from their landfill filling competitors.
Our friend Margaret of The Plant Philosophy is a big fan; read her Veestro review here.
JUST Egg Available Nationwide in April
Food innovators JUST’s mung bean based egg replacer, Just Egg, which outsold non-vegan competitors in just one week. Just Egg will be available at Sprouts and Whole Foods Market nationwide in April. Restaurants and recipe developers are using the revolutionary product to create plant-based omelets, scrambles, quiche, fried rice, and more.
Just Egg is one of JUST’s many epic products including Just Mayo, Just Cookie Dough, and 5 different dressings.
Tyson Foods To Launch Plant-Based Protein By Year’s End
It’s abundantly clear that plant-based food is the future. Fortune 500 company and meat giant Tyson Foods is putting their money where the market’s mouth is and promising to launch a plant-based protein product by the end of 2019.
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