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Like any other processed food, even veggie burgers have to be carefully vetted for acceptable ingredients. Very often they are nothing more than expensively pack­aged cereals.

Amy’s is an honorable exception – the prime ingredient is a real vegetable, mushroom and this is followed by onion.

It is only when we get to the third ingredient do we get to the cereal, bulgur wheat. Then it is off again on real vegetables like celery and carrots before we are down to the rolled oats.

It is a shame about the safflower oil – a painless improvement would be to use Canola oil.

Note too the sea salt. Exactly the trap for the unwary commented in ‘salt of the earth’ page 2.  It is still  salt and quite a lot in just one burger, 870 mg. (Remember, multiply the sodium content by three to get the salt content.)

Unlike soy protein burgers, this veggie burger is vegetable based and will combine well with other starches. It can make a fine filling to  pita pockets or tortilla wrap.

A very high percentage of the ingredients is organically grown. This is laudable. But as we emphasize at every opportunity, this is not the prime consideration for buying a product. The organic potato flakes (8^th ingredient) are just as bad as the ordinary kind!