10 Innovative Vegan Meats You’ve Gotta Meet

Here are 10 innovative vegan meats you may (or may not) have heard of or tried before. If you find a few new-to-you options that excite your recipe plans, we’ll have done our job. If you’re a lover of meat-that-tastes-just-like-meat-but-without-animal-cruelty, then keep reading!

Today you can find everything from vegan bacon, plant-based shrimp, meatless jerky, and animal-free caviar!

1. The BE-Hive Vegan Pepperoni

We recently tried this vegan pepperoni for the first time and were blown away! Not only is the butcher-style packaging quite neat and unexpected, but the plant-based pepperoni is incredibly delicious on any pizza. It’s our go-to!

2. Field Roast Mini Vegan Corn Dogs

Any corn dog lovers in the house? Well, you can now get your fix, thanks to Field Roast! Field Roast is one of our all-time favorite vegan meat brands, and they launched these mini corn dogs a couple years ago. You can find them in the freezer aisle of select grocery stores or at some online vegan grocery shops. They make the perfect tailgate party and vegan Super Bowl snacks! 

3. Beyond Breakfast Sausage

Beyond Meat came through for the vegan breakfast lovers of the world with their new breakfast sausage patties and these vegan sausage breakfast links. The flavor is on-point and these bring us right back to our pre-vegan breakfast days. They’re absolutely delicious in this vegan breakfast casserole!

4. All Vegetarian Vegan Bacon Slices

Okay, we know. The packaging may not be the most trendy. But friends. If you loved bacon in your pre-vegan days, you’ve gotta try these vegan bacon strips from All Vegetarian, Inc! They are the most bacon-like vegan bacon we’ve tried yet, and are delicious served next to tofu scramble or on a vegan BLT.  

5. Gardein’s Crispy Crabless Cakes

The vegan seafood scene is exploding. You can now find vegan shrimp, vegan fish fillet, vegan salmon, vegan tuna, and of course these mini crispy crabless cakes from Gardein. Companies like Good Catch Foods, Sohpie’s Kitchen, All Vegetarian, Loma Linda, and Gardein are paving the way. This is all great news, because fish are intelligent and sensitive creatures and fish isn’t the healthy food people once thought! Check out our vegan seafood guide for more. 

6. No Evil Foods’ BBQ Pulled Pork

This mission-driven brand is one of our favorites. No Evil Foods has been rising in popularity over recent years—and for good reason. Their products are approved by herbivores and meat lovers alike and their packaging is brilliant. They incorporate motivating messages, sustainability secrets, and more into the flaps of their rustic packaging and shout from the grocery shelves: “In plants we trust!” This vegan pulled pork is a winner. 

7. Vegan Chicken Nuggets from Alpha Foods

There are too many vegan chicken nuggets to count these days—with many mainstream grocery stores even releasing their own store-brand labels of vegan nuggs. But we have to give a shout to Alpha Foods because they have been leading a ton of progress in making plant-based meats and frozen foods more accessible by getting into stores like Walmart, Target, Safeway, and beyond. 

8. Sweet Earth’s Vegan Bacon 

Bacon that’s actually benevolent, and good for the world? Sweet Earth was one of the first to make it happen with their seitan bacon. If you’re new to seitan, it’s made from wheat gluten and has a perfectly meaty texture. While these won’t fool any meat eaters into thinking they’re eating actual animal bacon, they are super delicious with a definite bacon-y vibe. And they’re perfect for all the vegans out there who are creeped out by vegan meat that’s too much like the real thing. 

9. Beyond Meat’s Vegan Brat Sausages

We still remember the day Beyond Meat announced their release of the Beyond Sausage Brat. Seeing the enormous sea of people gathered around the Beyond Meat booth when they first started sampling them at the Natural Products Expo West was mind boggling! For those who love the “real meat” feel, these are for you. 

10. Impossible Burgers

What would a vegan meat round-up be without Impossible Foods? World famous Impossible Burgers burgers used to be impossible to find in stores outside of select pricy restaurants, but now are widely available across the United States! You can swing by a fast food joint and pick up an Impossible Slider at White Castle or an Impossible Whopper at Burger King, and now you can also find them in grocery stores and even order Impossible Burgers online! 

Ordering Vegan Meat Online  

Every mainstream grocery store we know of now carries at least some vegan meats. But there are so many brands and options coming to life, it’s impossible to find them all at once place. Ordering online from a specifically vegan online grocery store is a great way to find a huge selection of cool vegan meats in one place.

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