{"id":248,"date":"2017-05-11T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/?p=248"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:45:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:45:42","slug":"plant-based-product-beyond-meat-grilled-chicken-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/2017\/05\/11\/plant-based-product-beyond-meat-grilled-chicken-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-based Product Review: Beyond Meat Grilled &#8220;Chicken&#8221; Strips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By Jolee Keplinger (C&#8217;20) | Principia Center for Sustainability<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Move over tofu, Beyond Meat has created a variety of meat alternatives! My favorite product is the <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondmeat.com\/products\/view\/grilled-strips\">Grilled &#8220;Chicken&#8221; Strips<\/a>. They look just like traditional chicken, and taste very similar. On their own, you can tell it&#8217;s not real meat, but when they&#8217;re served with other ingredients, it&#8217;s hard to tell the difference!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_545.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-130\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_545-1024x898.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_545-1024x898.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_545-300x263.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/03\/fullsizeoutput_545-768x673.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sold by this amazing \u201cmeat\u201d substitute, let me give you a few reasons why you should be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beyondmeat.com\/products\/view\/grilled-strips\">Beyond Meat Grilled chicken<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Complete protein \u2014 20g per 3-oz serving\n<ul>\n<li>46% of your daily value!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>20%&nbsp;DV of iron<\/li>\n<li>No saturated fat or cholesterol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/living\/other\/top-10-reasons-eat-chickens\/\">Chicken (espeically when raised on factory farms)<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria<\/li>\n<li>May promote animal exploitation<\/li>\n<li>Potential for <em>E. coli<\/em> contamination<\/li>\n<li>Waste pollutes the land and water<\/li>\n<li>Some are fed arsenic to make them grow faster (toxic to humans)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-9-861x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-9-861x1024.jpg 861w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-9-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-9-768x914.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The best feedback was received when the &#8220;chicken&#8221; was incorporated into plant-based dishes such as the stir-fry pictured above,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/2017\/03\/23\/plant-based-recipe-test-4-quesadillas\/\">quesadillas<\/a>&nbsp;and melts. The melt pictured below was made&nbsp;with Daiya provolone &#8220;cheese&#8221;, &#8220;chicken&#8221;, tomato slices, and a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=241&amp;action=edit\">pesto<\/a> spread on top of toasted&nbsp;whole grain bread.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-213\" src=\"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-14-1024x997.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-14-1024x997.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-14-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/files\/2017\/05\/FullSizeRender-14-768x748.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Student Feedback (&#8220;chicken&#8221; only)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Yenum Egwuenu 6\/10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;It tastes very veggie. It&#8217;s okay but I prefer meat. I&#8217;m open to eating&nbsp;it in the future though.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stephen Stuart 8\/10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It has a fish-like flavor. It&#8217;s really good but it doesn&#8217;t taste like the chicken I ate for lunch. There&#8217;s a blandish flavor. It would be great with spices and other things mixed in.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Cheesy Chicken Melt &#8211; Student Feedback<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adelainee Biang 8\/10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It tastes like meat. At first I didn&#8217;t like it but after eating it all I think it tastes good! I normally don&#8217;t like cheese, but this tastes really nice.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Boyo Amuka 10\/10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The chicken alternative tastes like normal chicken! It&#8217;s a great substitute! I think it&#8217;s best when combined with other things.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>The Verdict<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This chicken alternative is by far, the most similar to chicken out of all the plant-based imitation chicken I&#8217;ve tasted. &nbsp;It was received by students, making it an excellent option for plant-based eaters here at Principia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jolee Keplinger (C&#8217;20) | Principia Center for Sustainability Move over tofu, Beyond Meat has created a variety of meat alternatives! My favorite product is the Grilled &#8220;Chicken&#8221; Strips. They look just like traditional chicken, and taste very similar. On their own, you can tell it&#8217;s not real meat, but when they&#8217;re served with other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/2017\/05\/11\/plant-based-product-beyond-meat-grilled-chicken-strips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plant-based Product Review: Beyond Meat Grilled &#8220;Chicken&#8221; Strips<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plant-forward","category-principia-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}