There are easy and healthy egg replacers for vegan baking like flaxseed or banana, but you can't exactly scramble those and make an omelette! Just Egg [1] is a new product for those wanting to eat eggs, but as the package states, it's "made from plants (not from chickens)." Ok, but how does it taste? And is it healthy? Keep reading to find out.
Just Egg Ingredients
The ingredients in Just Egg are water, mung bean protein isolate, expeller-pressed rapeseed oil, corn starch, contains less than two percent of baking powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate), dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, natural carrot extractives (colour), natural turmeric extractives (colour), salt, and transglutaminase.
Just Egg Nutritional Information
For one piece of folded egg, it's 100 calories, seven grams of fat, and 0.5 grams of saturated fat. It has zero cholesterol, 300 milligrams of sodium, three grams of carbs, no fibre or sugar, and offers seven grams of protein.
For comparison, two medium eggs [2] would be 120 calories, eight grams of fat, and three grams of saturated fat. It has 330 milligrams, 120 milligrams of sodium, no carbs, sugar or fibre, and offers 12 grams of protein.
How Does Just Egg Taste?
I went basic and just put my Just Egg on a whole wheat bun, and was admittedly a little nervous to take my first bite. But it was . . . awesome! I couldn't believe how much it looked and tasted like a real scrambled egg. It had a much more subtle egg flavour than actual eggs, but I was very impressed.
If I added other ingredients to my Just Egg sandwich, I don't think I would have been able to tell that it wasn't real eggs. The texture was soft and moist, and I immediately went in for my second bite.
I made some for my family and both my kids and husband liked it, too! My kids actually asked for a second sandwich, but the package only had four folded eggs.