Vege burgers contain any meat?

Question

My mom just brought be Morningstar Vege Burgers and I looked at the ingredients and it said that it had "lean meat" in it. What is that? Fake meat?

Answer 1

If it had lean meat, it wouldn't be vegetarian.  As others have pointed out, one patty probably counts as a "lean meat" exchange on many diet programs.

Answer 2

I have a hard time believing this, because "lean meat" wouldn't be listed as an ingredient on ANYTHING.  Ingredient lists have to be more specific than that, like is it beef, pork, chicken, turkey, etc...

Morningstar products are all vegetarian and some are vegan.

Edit to add: you're looking at the "dietary exchanges" section.  That's not ingredients, it's information for people on a diet that specifies X amount of servings from each of several food groups.  It means that, even though it's vegetarian, it counts as a serving of lean meat.

Answer 3

I haven't seen that. Morningstar has only vegetarian products.

Answer 4

IT S ALL VAG AND AND SOME CHEESE TO HOLD IT TO GETHER THAT IT

Answer 5

I just took a look at my MorningStar burgers in my freezer, and I saw no lean meat in the ingredients. I have been a vegetarian for eleven months, and my parents always buy me MorningStar burgers that I absolutely love.

So they are not meat.  

Answer 6

No, you read the label completely wrong. It was COMPARING the Morningstar product to lean meat.  

Answer 7

I have ate those before but my label didn't say anything about "lean meat" just listed things like soy and veggies and i think one said something about tofu.