Three-hundred Whole Foods locations will soon have a new plant-based bacon product in its stores. Hooray Foods bacon product, which is made primarily from oil, rice flour, and starch.
Note: The featured image is of vegan bacon, but not this new product from Hooray Foods. See their product in the video below!
This vegan bacon has been around for awhile, but is now taking a major step into the mainstream market via Whole Foods that they just announced in a press release today.
What’s in this plant-based bacon?
The ingredients list includes the following:
Coconut oil, rice flour, tapioca starch, liquid smoke, umami seasoning (shiitake mushrooms, salt, mushroom extract, calcium carbonate), maple syrup, salt, beet juice concentrate
The Hooray Foods bacon is also gluten, dairy and soy free.
Is this bacon a vegan product?
Yes. The restaurant kit on the Hooray Foods website notes that the product can be described as vegan.
But does it taste like bacon?
I haven’t tried this product (and it does contain oil), but it sounds like it’s not too bad tasting according to this C-Net writer who tried the product. Noted are attempts to improve the texture and mouth-feel of bacon.
Obviously this is not a health food (neither is bacon), but it does sound like it could mimic the animal-based product while not inflicting any cruelty.
Helping the environment and animals too
Hooray Foods, a start-up in San Francisco, wanted to make a product that had an environmental impact. A main goal of introducing plant-based products was to give the consumer a better choice in the food system.
Their website also notes that they are planning some activism.
plan to partner with non-profit animal farms and sanctuaries to help provide funds toward pigs rescued from production and abuse
Hopefully we’ll learn more about their activities in this space soon!
When is the plant-based bacon coming to Whole Foods?
This new bacon product is already arriving in Whole Foods locations, and the roll-out should be complete by the end of this month.
Have you tried the Hooray plant-based bacon? How was it, and which store did you find it in? Let us know in the comments!
PlantBasedRecipe.com has no affiliation whatsoever with Hooray Foods or Whole Foods.
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John Stellon
Another great contradiction in logic: for the sake of “meatless” let’s destroy our health. Bacon as per this article –> about the new bacon coming to town at Whole Food…
“Three-hundred Whole Foods locations will soon have a new plant-based bacon
product in its stores. Hooray Foods bacon product, which is MADE PRIMARILY
FROM OIL, RICE, FLOUR AND STARCH.”
The ingredients above are not healthy, other than rice and that depends on the type of rice; they are just not healthy.
For the record, I enjoy coming to this site, my wife and I made many delicious meals from the recipes that Jen shared and we’re grateful to her, however I believe that the vegan movement has not placed enough emphasis on reasons why people should start moving towards a whole plant based diet, to move away from foods that contain ingredients that are destructive to the body, to move more to ingredients that are whole, natural and nutritious.
Jen @ Plant Based Recipe
Yep gotcha. Again, this is just a news article about a new product since people demonstrated interest in news like this on the social media channels. No where is the article, or myself, claiming it’s healthy. The vegan movement is entirely about animal ethics, not health or environment. Yes it isn’t great, but that is what it is by definition.
Honestly, things like this just make me want to shut down the site altogether 🙁
Anne
Hi Jen,
I just found your website and think it is fantastic! Please do not shut it down!!!
Jackie Hedges
veganism is typically an ethical approach and not a health “diet”…im not sure why some dont see this