Stokesley, North Yorkshire-based Quorn Foods has rolled out three new frozen faux meat ready meals in the United Kingdom retail market. The primary ingredient for each 400-gram dish is mycoprotein, a plant-based meat substitute made from fermented fungi and sugar that is a good source of dietary fiber.
Newly launched Meat Free Stew & Dumplings feature vegetarian steak-style pieces and potatoes, parsnip and swede cooked in Dorset Ale. The calorie count per 100-gram serving is 108. Fat weighs in 3.6 grams, of which 1.9 grams are saturated.
The new Quorn Meat Free Pork and Mustard offering consists of faux pork-style fillets accentuated with Dijon mustard and cheese sauce. The calorie count per 100-gram serving is 104. Fat checks in 5.4 grams, of which 3.2 grams are saturated.
Quorn Meat Free Steak Diane is a classic American dish with a creamy mushroom sauce. It contains 4.2 grams of fat per 100-gram serving, of which 2.5 grams are saturated. The calorie count is 100.
Quorn Foods, a unit of Marlow Foods Limited owned by Exponent Private Equity, produces a wide variety of meat substitute products made from mycoprotein. Its expansive line runs the gamut from meat-free BBQ chicken bites and crispy fillets to Cumberland sausages, turkey- and beef-style burgers and fajita strips, to meat-free pork pies, lasagna, Thai red curry, pepperoni pizza, cottage pie, Indian vegetable samosas, toad in the hole meals for one, and man other prepared foods.
Now on the sales block and expected to fetch upwards of £500 million, a number major multinational frozen food industry players are reportedly interested in buying the company. Among them are said to be McCain Foods, Pinnacle Foods, Inc., Nestlé SA, Hain Celestial Group, Alpro (the owner WhiteWave Foods Company) and Charoen Pokphand Foods (CP), Nomad Foods, Danone, Kerry Group, Wilmar International of Singapore and Pulmuone Co. of South Korea.
