{"id":7065,"date":"2021-05-12T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2023-01-23T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:17:01","slug":"we-taste-test-plant-based-crab-cakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/we-taste-test-plant-based-crab-cakes\/","title":{"rendered":"We Taste-Test Plant-Based &#8220;Crab Cakes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Mary Jane, is allergic to crustaceans&#8211;they give her gout flareups. But we wondered about the plant-based seafood products. We decided to buy real crabby cakes (above, at left) and taste-test them against Crab Cakes by <a href=\"https:\/\/gtfoitsvegan.com\/product\/vegan-crab-cakes-sophies-kitchen\/?v=7516fd43adaa\">Sophie&#8217;s Kitchen<\/a>. They are made with Konjac root, pronounced \u2018kon-jack\u2019, an ancient Asian staple. The package reads: &#8220;Low in calories, high in fiber and sustainable. 100% Plant-based | Non GMO | Soy Free | Gluten Free | Kosher.&#8221; I bought some real, frozen crab cakes from Whole Foods .We tasted both products with homemade tartar sauce.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7068\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Crab-cakes-SK-scaled-1-300x256.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"198\" \/><br \/>\nThe result? The color of the plant-based product was off, as you can see by the product on the right. It tasted of crab seasoning but not crab. &#8220;They don&#8217;t taste like anything,&#8221; Mary Jane commented. Even the texture was decidedly uncrabby. So this plant-based &#8220;seafood&#8221; was inferior in appearance, texture, and flavor. The fact that it cost less than real crab did not save this product from getting a grade of &#8220;D.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Mary Jane, is allergic to crustaceans&#8211;they give her gout flareups. But we wondered about the plant-based seafood products. We decided to buy real crabby cakes (above, at left) and taste-test them against Crab Cakes by Sophie&#8217;s Kitchen. They are made with Konjac root, pronounced \u2018kon-jack\u2019, an ancient Asian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,436],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7208,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seafood-harvest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}