Taste Test Tuesday: A Tale of Two Soy Sausage Links
Sometimes sausage is a desirable part of your meal or breakfast. As I said last week, one of my favorite ways to enjoy lean link sausage is wrapped in a fluffy buttermilk pancake. Can't very well have "pigs in a blanket" without the pig.
But what if you are looking for something like sausage but without the pork part...there are several brands of soy sausage links on the frozen food shelf. My family and I taste tested two of them this weekend:
They look an awful lot like pork sausage links, but if you set your taste buds up to taste pork sausage links, they will be sadly disappointed. The texture was fine; it was more the flavor that was lacking.
My family thought the Boca Meatless Breakfast Links had more flavor than the Morning Star Links. I think I would actually buy this product again as long as I wasn't serving them as a stand-alone item. They tasted pretty good to me as long as I was using them in something - like drizzling them some maple syrup and wrapping them in a buttermilk pancake or chopping them up and adding them, along with cheddar cheese, to an omelet. And you gotta love that there's a sausage link that contributes 2 grams of fiber!
Here's the nutritional breakdown in these two products:
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But what if you are looking for something like sausage but without the pork part...there are several brands of soy sausage links on the frozen food shelf. My family and I taste tested two of them this weekend:
- Boca Meatless Breakfast Links
- Morning Star Farms Sausage Links
They look an awful lot like pork sausage links, but if you set your taste buds up to taste pork sausage links, they will be sadly disappointed. The texture was fine; it was more the flavor that was lacking.
My family thought the Boca Meatless Breakfast Links had more flavor than the Morning Star Links. I think I would actually buy this product again as long as I wasn't serving them as a stand-alone item. They tasted pretty good to me as long as I was using them in something - like drizzling them some maple syrup and wrapping them in a buttermilk pancake or chopping them up and adding them, along with cheddar cheese, to an omelet. And you gotta love that there's a sausage link that contributes 2 grams of fiber!
Here's the nutritional breakdown in these two products:
Boca Meatless Breakfast LinksIf you have a soy sausage link that you like, tell us about it!
2 links = 70 calories, 3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 8 g protein, 2 g fiber, 320 mg sodium
Morning Star Sausage Links
2 links = 80 calories, 3 g fat, .5 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 9 g protein, 2 g fiber, 300 mg sodium
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1 Comments:
I think the Morningstar Farm Sausage patties are much better tasting than the links. To me they are the most like real sausage.
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