Even though there are so many food exhibitions that I go to, visiting the Plant Based World Expo Europe was a unique experience.
It was held at Excel which was super convenient.
There were so many exhibitors and great plant products.
To summarize, I tasted many great plant cheeses, there some really good plant ham but not much on plant eggs but to date, there is only good plant egg maker fabulously produced in the UK by
Veg Life.
Anyway, here's a round up of my findings that I liked.
For Cheese, the La Fauxmagerie which comes from East London, not only do they taste great but I love the names of the cheese like Brixton blue, Balham Blue, Bricklane Bree etc.
The texture is soft was taste was bang on.
For Italian Cheese, Dream Farm from Italy has these creamy dreamy plant Mozzarella which also come in a brine solution.
The texture is very similar but slightly softer with less resistance and tastes very creamy and just as good.
I was really pleased to see JENS MOLLER products who are makes of Zhrimp and faux caviar.
It so happens I have already tried their faux
caviar at IKEA and also the no prawn cocktail sandwiches at ASDA and ALDI.
Marks and Spencers was supposed to have it but they pulled out at the last minute as I remember getting pictures of the labels that were on the shelves.
IKEA SJÖRAPPORT Red and Black Seaweed pearls
ASDA no prawn cocktail sandwich
Aldi no prawn cocktail sandwich
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For Faux squid, Happiee from USA have nailed it.
Moving on to ham, the French are seriously good with their cheese and ham as well as plant based ham.
La Vie who do tasty plant bacon have just launched a really seriously amazing plant ham which you wouldn't have guessed is plant based in a sandwich.
Eating it alone wafer thin style was so still.
The mouth feel is hard to suspect only a little dryness and a slight grainy texture like chicken breast so I can foresee this is going to be an hot item.
As well as omni having plant luncheon style meat, unMEAT also do it too.
I spotted this really eye catching Belgium/German/Racing car looking booth by Rightside because of the colours and black and white chequered pattern.
It turns out that they specialize in mayo, vegan honey and plant squeezy cheese and sweeteners.
My taste were blown away by this lobster mayo which smells and tastes exactly like prawn cocktail crisps!
Most people in UK would love this flavour and I can see it being a match made in heaven with the Zhrimp.
McEnnedy Squeezy Cheese Sauce
Their honeys which I still can't get my head round do not come from bee but taste exactly like honey and their maple syrup was really decadent.
I tried their sweetener on tea and only one tiny drop was needed in my large cup of 50ml tea!
Ready go lunches are sorted with herbimore, their sandwiches and mushroom burger was fantastic.
For hot dogs, I was impressed with Van Hees hot dog which are spot on, although the colour is a bit brown.
There were many faux meats from Sons of Butchers, the product names were quirky and fun like mince cheat, trick n wings etc.
Then there were hemp faux meats!!!
With all the plant milks available, milkadamia was really memorable because it was made with macadamias.
The tea and latte drinks were so good especially the tea because the black tea was really aromatic.
To end it all sweetly, there were so many nice soft serves, ice cream bars and even marshmallows.
Dandies marshmallows were banging, flavour and sweetness was just right with so many flavours to choose from like maple syrup, chocolate to vanilla.
