Taste Test Tuesday: New Morning Star Maple Flavored Sausage Patties

Yes, there's another veggie product on the market trying to be a savory sausage. This one is by Morning Star Farms and it is working the "maple flavored" angle. Textured vegetable protein is the first ingredient with water, sugar, corn oil, and egg whites being the next four ingredients.

A 2-patty serving contributes 20 grams of protein and 6 grams of fat and barely any saturated fat (and no cholesterol since it doesn't include animal meat or egg yolks). It does, however, boost your daily sodium total by 500 milligrams! So make sure if you are using this product that you don't add even more sodium to the dish or recipe you are making.

How do they taste?
They don't taste too bad considering the list of ingredients, and although I definitely prefer some of the turkey sausages I've tried, this is one of the better tasting veggie-based sausage products. They would work particularly well in dishes where other ingredients are eaten along with them like a homemade Sausage Egg McMuffin (sausage patty topped with cooked egg or egg substitute, some reduced fat cheddar cheese, all served on a toasted whole wheat English muffin).

2 patties are probably a realistic serving, which contains:
160 calories, 6 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 3 g polyunsaturated fat, 1 g monounsaturated fat, 0 g trans fat, 20 g protein, 10 g carbohydrate, 500 mg sodium.

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