Mushrooms Add "Meaty" Flavor

Mushrooms Add "Meaty" Flavor

Mushroom flavor products add complexity with a meaty taste to meatless burgers. The Nikken Foods Company’s mushroom flavor product -- used in vegetarian burger applications -- are available in powders, bullion, and concentrates. The varieties include Mushroom Extract Powder (2103 - an extract of the Champignon Mushroom), providing a mild mushroom aroma with a full, clean, non-earthy flavor; Shitake Powder (2106 – dried Shitake Mushroom heads and stems ground to a fine powder), providing a smoky, woody mushroom flavor; and Shitake Extract Powder (2111 – extract of dried Shitake Mushroom stems and heads), providing a smoky, woody flavor. Nikken Foods Company, Herb Bench, 636-532-1019, benchnstl@aol.com

Prepared Foods, November 2004, page 62.