# Fruit that tastes like meat

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 25, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-that-tastes-like-meat/763947 "2016-08-25T21:27:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-that-tastes-like-meat/763947/41 "2016-08-29T17:11:19Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Seitan, which is gluten with the flour starch washed out, is also a popular meat substitute for people who like that kind of thing. It tastes a lot like chicken and has a vaguely comparable texture.

I make my own seitan. The taste and texture varies depending on how you prepare it. Boiled seitan has a luncheon-meat-like texture, and baked seitan is a little more meatloafy. Adding some anise and rosemary gives it a sausage flavor, and adding minced dried mushrooms (especially porcini), along with the soaking water used to reconstitute them, makes it taste beefy. I always add garlic, and usually some tomato paste or soy sauce for color.

I have a hunch that a good dollop of Marmite will also make it meatier, and plan to try that the next time I cook up a loaf.

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**Post date:** [August 29, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-that-tastes-like-meat/763947/42 "2016-08-29T21:15:00Z")

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> [@yo\_han\_go](#):
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> Never heard of Quorn before. Sounds like some Klingon food.

Quorn is pretty good - made from cultured mould, then processed and textured. The sausages are fairly convincingly meaty. The ‘chicken’ is not quite right, but not unpleasant. The ‘bacon’ is awful - like eating a smoked flip-flop.

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