Quorn.....is it me?

CherryPie

Well who knew?!? I've recently gone veggie but have eaten a few of the quorn products in my time. Don't particularly like the texture (same reason I've gone veggie) My Mum eats a lot of quorn and is constantly telling me how ill she is!! Maybe this could be the reason?


Off to do some googling.......

Farway

Pennyinthe£ wrote: »

Hello to all and thanks in advance for your help.

In an effort to eat a little healthier I bought some quorn. My OH is not keen on anything like that so I pretended it was chicken and sneaked it into a curry . Success!! He never even noticed but I was very sick after id eaten it. Used Quorn mince to make Spag Bol......same results. He ate it happily but I was again really sick after eating it...............even worse than the first time. So the question is, is it me or the Quorn? Am I doing something wrong with it? OH was fine and I normally have no problem with anything. I have another two bags lurking in the freezer and don't want to waste it.

Not just you, I could eat it a few years back, but now manufacturer & I assume ingredients, have changed, both I and my grandson puke it all up

paulineb_2

I ate quorn for years before I stopped eating dairy, there are far nicer veggie meals out there. I dont eat a lot of veggie snack food as it were, but I much prefer the Linda McCartney stuff, theres a company called vegusto that does really nice veggie products, company called goodlife as well, even some of the bog standard veggie sausages from asda taste nicer than quorn as far as Im concerned.

lostinrates

baconandcabbage wrote: »

It's healthy it's very low in fat much lower in fat than lean meat. The fillets are really nice and the lower fat sausages

Being low fat alone doesn't make something healthy . Sugar is low fat, but we know eating pots of syrup or marshmallows is low fat but unhealthy.

Quorn is lower fat than meat, but not as low fat as say, lentils I think . I think lentils actually stack up nutritionally better against quorn on most counts actually, though not 100% sure because I don't eat it so haven't checked in a long time.

There are various other concerns people have which veer from the plausible to the hysterical. We did try some again earlier this year, and had it been really tasty I might have evaluated the balance of my personal concerns risk against low fat benefit. But it tasted like old socks:o.


I love tofu and some soya, but personally am wary of too much soya or 'hormone impacting' food in my diet so also keep those to a a bit of a treat. I really do like tofu though, so its not an anti vegetarian thing.

Mags_cat

I've never had any problems with the Quorn mince (apart from a feeling of nagging sadness that it doesn't taste as good as mince :rotfl:) but the sausages give me awful indigestion. Cauldron sausages, on the other hand are lovely and I sometimes eat them instead of meat sausages if watching fat intake.

building_with_lego

Well knock me down with a feather. I had no idea that this sort of reaction was known about!

I went vege around the time of the Foot and Mouth outbreak, although the two weren't connected, and thought I "ought to" try Quorn. I bought some of the southern fried burgers on offer and, although they tasted quite nice, I found myself very nauseous afterwards, and threw 3 of the 4 away.
I had put it down to my utter revulsion of the whole concept of eating fungi but perhaps it was physical rather than psychological. I'm totally amazed at how many people ^^ have similar and more extreme reactions.

Frugalsod

I have never had a problem with it, though do not eat it regularly. Now bean feast that ripped through me like a scouring pad. My diet at that time was not high in fibre so it came as a shock.

GlynD

This is very interesting. I've always had a problem with Quorn. I put it down to the garlic in it as garlic makes me queasy. Great to find out I'm not alone.

Pennyinthe£

Thanks to everyone for your comments and advice. I really had no idea that there was so many catalogued issues with the stuff. I wont be using it again.There are far nicer, cheaper and healthier alternatives out there which don't reduce me to a heaving sweaty wreck. Should be classed as a WMD!!

luxor4t

I used to eat Quorn regularly a few years back, as did DH: we were doing Sl*mming W*rld before his heart op). I used to get some stomach cramp, but put that down to the huge quantities of veg I was eating

I bought some the other day for the freezer, so now I'm looking at it carefully ..... btw, I thought it was made of wallpaper paste :rotfl: