


Instead, brands use a number of different plant-based ingredients, like soy, pea protein, and even jackfruit, to recreate the same taste and texture as the real thing. But first, what actually is vegan chicken? What is vegan chicken?Īs the name implies, there are no real chickens involved in the making of vegan chicken.

Here are all of the juicy, tender, golden, crispy vegan chicken products you can find at the store and online. Between the explosion of store-bought chicken nuggets to the full vegan revamp of Morningstar Farms, vegan chicken is here to stay. While vegan beef stole the spotlight in the late 2010s, vegan chicken is the star of the twenties. In 2018, the Beyond Burger was outselling beef-based patties in some supermarkets, and the debut of the Impossible Whopper shot Burger King’s sales through the roof as the financially declining chain reported its best quarter in four years. The classic burger patty was the first breakaway product to really disrupt the meat industry’s status quo.
