Please forgive me if the answer to my question is on the site, but I’ve searched all the TVP and vegetarian threads and I can’t find the answer. (The information is not available on their website.)
Has anyone bought the Honeyville TVP products? If so, is it 100% vegetarian? I am concerned about what flavorings are used in the “flavors” (beef, chicken, ham). Are the flavorings vegetable derived or simply listed as “natural”? I need to know before I can order. Thanks in advance for anyone who knows or can list the ingredients for me.
The ingredients on my cans of Unflavored TVP only list soy flour. There are many more incredients on the cans of beef and chicken flavored TVP. Those are from Honeville.
i.e. Flavored-Like Beef Chuncks: TVP (soy flour, carmel color), partially hydrogenated soybean oil, water, salt, hydrolyzed corn-soy-wheat protein, autolyzed yeast.
Flavored-Like Chicken Chunks:Textured soy flour, partially hydrogentated soybean oil, salt, autolyzed yeast extract, hydrolyzed corn protein, natural smoke flavoring thiamine hydrochloride, dextrose, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate.
I also have a chicken TVP from Mountain Brook Foods that lists natural chicken flavoring.
hope that helps
Sorry, Chicken Flavored TVP from Mountain Brook Foods lists natural flavoring, so I don’t really know what that means.
Thanks silversage, that’s exactly the information I needed :)
Juliana, The people at Honeyville will happily answer any and all of your questions. When in doubt, go to the source.
1–888–810–3212 ext. 107. The man who is in charge of the online sales and has answered all my questions to date is Chris Ondatje.
Has anyone accually opened the unflavored TVP from honeyville? I wonder if the “chunks” they sell are like cubes of meat, or more like hamburger crumbles. Anyone know? I’ve called Honeyville grain and asked twice, but no one could answer this one for me.
Carrey in VA-16:36
The unflavored TVP chunks are much larger than hamburger crumbles.They would compare to stew meat. More like 1 inch cubes. Hope that helps.
And believe me, unflavored is really unflavored. It needs a lot of seasoning.
Bird Guano,
Which of their products do you recommend, and how do you use it? I have only used a locally purchased, unflavord TVP, which I was able to adapt to a few recipes with moderate success. The size of the pieces of TVP seemed a bit small to me and didn’t add much to the texture of something like chili. I’ve been afraid of the flavored meat substitutes, thinking we might not like them.
So I’d be interested in knowing which products you’ve purchased and how you have used them. Thanks.
Actually the “Unflavored Chunks” from Honeyville are roughly the same size as crumbled ground meat. I thought it was going to be large chunks but it is actually not.
Melanie, glad to see you back here….except ‘here’ is going away…hope all is well with you, you’ve been missed here.