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Plant-based meat alternatives: what's actually in it?

One shelf holds at least four different kinds of product. Soy-based analogues (Impossible, Harvest Gourmet) build their protein from soy. Pea-based analogues (Beyond) build theirs from pea protein, with rice and faba bean protein alongside. Mycoprotein analogues (Quorn) are made from a fermented fungus, not a bean. And whole-plant analogues (Karana) start from young jackfruit with only a handful of added ingredients. The front of the pack rarely makes the protein source clear; the ingredient list does.

This page covers plant-based burgers, mince, sausages, nuggets and chicken alternatives — meat analogues — sold in Singapore. Tofu and tempeh are excluded (separate page), as are ordinary vegetarian products that are not meat analogues (for example a plain vegetable patty or a bean burger that does not imitate meat). This page does not give a health score or a "best" pick.

The headline, in 30 seconds

• Only two products here are panelled from a Singapore retailer's own ingredient section: Impossible Plant Burger Patties and Harvest Gourmet Sensational Burger, both from FairPrice. Everything else is panelled from a brand site, a brand PDF, or an overseas retailer — flagged as such — because no SG ingredient section was retrievable for it in this pass.
• Impossible is soy, and it says so twice. Its SG FairPrice list starts with water, then plant protein (21%) (soy), and includes soy leghemoglobin (genetically modified) — the "heme" that makes it taste meaty. It contains soy and an allium derivative.
• Beyond is pea, not soy. Its list starts with water, then pea protein (16% in the EU/brand-PDF version), with rice protein, coconut oil and beetroot colour. It is soy-free and gluten-free in that version — but the US version of the same burger is a different list (avocado oil, lentil protein, faba bean protein), so do not mix the two up.
• Quorn is the shortest list on the page. Quorn Mince is mycoprotein (91%), rehydrated free-range egg white, pea fibre and gluten-free barley malt extract — four ingredients. But it is not vegan (egg white), and mycoprotein is a fungus, not a plant protein isolate.
• Karana is the other short list. Karana Minced jackfruit meat is young jackfruit, pea protein, canola oil, methylcellulose, yeast extract, salt, vegetable juice (colour) and citric acid — eight ingredients, gluten-free and soy-free. It is a foodservice-first Singapore brand; no SG retail pack list was verified.
• Methylcellulose is everywhere. It appears in Impossible (as thickener INS 461), Beyond, OmniMeat, Harvest Gourmet, TiNDLE and Karana. It is a plant-derived binder that holds the patty together when cooked — it is not a protein, a flavouring or a preservative.
• Coconut oil is the saturated-fat driver. Impossible, Beyond, Harvest Gourmet, OmniMeat Luncheon and Gardein all use coconut oil (or, in some versions, palm oil) for juiciness and marbling. The protein source differs; the fat logic mostly does not.
• Honest limit, 5 November 2026: the web search service rate-limited (429) part-way through this pass, so the inventory searches for Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee could not be completed. This page is therefore not an extensive inventory of the SG shelf — it panels what could be verified and lists everything else as seen-but-not-verified. See "Sources and method" and the research notes.

At a glance

Panelled with verbatim lists: 16 products. Of these, 2 are from a Singapore retailer's ingredient section (Impossible Plant Burger Patties, Harvest Gourmet Sensational Burger — both FairPrice); the other 14 are panelled from brand sites/PDFs or overseas retailers and are flagged as such, with SG sale confirmed only by retailer listings or press reports, not by an SG pack list. Seen-but-not-verified: see the list below.

Prices are deliberately not shown here: they change weekly and would go stale. This site compares ingredients only.

Soy-based — Impossible and Harvest Gourmet

Pea-based — Beyond

Pork-style mince, luncheon and strips — OmniMeat

Mycoprotein — Quorn

Chicken alternatives — TiNDLE

Pea and soy blends — Gardein

Whole-plant — Karana (jackfruit)

Seen but not verified — do not panel until checked

• Beyond Beef (mince) — sold at FairPrice/Cold Storage/RedMart according to retailer round-ups; no verbatim SG ingredient list was retrieved in this pass. Do not assume it matches the Beyond Burger list.
• Beyond Breakfast Sausage patties (Original / Spicy) — a US list was retrieved (water, pea protein, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, natural flavors, inactivated yeast, rice protein, methylcellulose, yeast extract, apple extract, salt, pomegranate extract, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, sunflower lecithin, beet juice extract, carrot), but no SG sale was verified in this pass, so it is not panelled.
• Beyond Meatballs and other Beyond formats — no verbatim list and no SG sale evidence retrieved in this pass.
• Impossible Chicken Nuggets, Impossible Sausage, Impossible Pork — no verbatim SG list retrieved in this pass; the nuggets contain wheat (brand statement) unlike Impossible Beef, so they must not be assumed to share the beef list.
• Quorn Vegan Nuggets — a UK list was retrieved (mycoprotein 51%, wheat flour, rapeseed oil, water, wheat starch, pea fibre, natural flavouring, potato protein, pea protein, salt, wheat gluten, durum wheat semolina, yeast, sage, garlic powder, white pepper, paprika/sage extracts, onion powder/oil, ammonium bicarbonate), but it differs from both the UK vegetarian Crispy Nuggets panelled above and the US Meatless Nuggets (mycoprotein 47%/32% in different listings), so no Quorn nugget list is treated as the SG list without a pack check.
• Quorn Meatless Nuggets (US) — US list retrieved (mycoprotein 47%, wheat flour, water, wheat starch, canola oil, potato dextrin, yeast extract, wheat gluten, salt, egg white, dextrose, turbinado sugar, modified corn starch, spice, milk proteins, calcium acetate/chloride, yeast, guar gum, onion powder, sugar); SG sale not verified, not panelled.
• HAPPIEE! Chickiee Nuggets, Chickiee Popcorn, Chickiee Patties, Breaded Chickiee Patties — Singapore brand (Growthwell Foods), soy-based chicken alternatives, sold at selected FairPrice and Cold Storage outlets; no verbatim ingredient list was retrieved for any of them in this pass. Seen-but-not-verified.
• HAPPIEE! Fishiee Sticks, Fishiee Patties, Salmoniee Flakes, Crabbiee Patty — plant-based seafood analogues from the same brand. Out of this page's meat-analogue scope (and no verbatim lists retrieved); noted here so they are not mistaken for missing meat rows.
• Karana Gyoza — the brand brochure gives a partial filling list (KARANA minced jackfruit meat, cabbage, green onion, ginger, tapioca starch, canola oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, yeast extract; skin: wheat flour, water, soy bean oil, soy protein, corn starch), but the retrieved text is truncated/incomplete, so it is not panelled as a verbatim list.
• Green Rebel burgers, sausages and meatballs — named in SG round-ups as stocked at FairPrice Finest; no verbatim ingredient list retrieved in this pass.
• Other SG/local and imported meat analogues — including LoveHandle, Meatless Kingdom, Fable, Linda McCartney and Fry's products, and any meat analogues at Don Don Donki, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Mustafa, Giant, Sheng Siong, Little Farms, Lazada and Shopee: not inventoried with verified lists in this pass (search rate-limit, see method note). They are not claimed absent; they are unverified.
• Tofu and tempeh — excluded by scope (separate page), not missing. Ordinary vegetarian products that are not meat analogues (plain vegetable patties, bean burgers, vegetarian sausages that do not imitate meat) — excluded by scope.
• Foodservice-only products (restaurant packs, bulk formats such as the 1kg OmniMeat foodservice mince) — out of scope unless a retail pack with the same name is sold in SG supermarkets; the retail OmniMeat lists above are the retail formats.

Nutrition — what the numbers say

All figures in the table are as sold, per 100 g, unless a row says otherwise. Sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars separately. No official Singapore Nutri-Grade (A–D) was found printed on any of these products in this pass, so none is quoted here; no grade has been assigned.

Salt and sodium: salt = sodium × 2.5. The table shows sodium as printed (in mg) with the salt equivalent in brackets. Sodium is not presented as salt, and salt is not presented as sodium.

Total vs added sugars: most Singapore packs list total sugars, not added sugars. A total-sugars figure is never labelled here as "added sugar". The ingredient list remains the evidence for added sugar: OmniMeat Mince, OmniMeat Strips and Gardein Be'f Burger list sugar; Impossible lists cultured dextrose and dextrose (in the US list) as minor ingredients; Beyond's EU lists have no sugar entry. Where a source states an added-sugars figure separately, it is noted in the research notes.

Brand sites and overseas retailers are flagged as secondary where used: the SG pack takes precedence if it disagrees. Figures marked "not stated" were not in the source retrieved; they are not estimated, borrowed from another variant, or copied across flavours or formats. Per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted to per-100 g.

Observed numbers, no verdict: the only full per-100 g panel verified in this pass is Impossible's (190 kcal, 17 g protein, 11 g fat, 5 g saturated fat, 8 g carbohydrate, 1 g total sugars, 330 mg sodium per 100 g, as sold, from the brand's nutrition page). Beyond Burger and Beyond Sausage each state 17 g protein per 100 g in their brand PDFs, and TiNDLE Chicken states 15.76 g protein per 100 g in its brand FAQ — no other per-100 g figure was verified for those three, so no fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, sugars or sodium comparison is made for them here. A secondary source (Open Food Facts, for the Impossible patties) gives a slightly different panel — 204 kcal, 16.8 g protein, 11.5 g fat, 5.31 g saturated fat, 7.96 g carbohydrate, 0.44 g sugars, salt 0.819 g per 100 g — and a trade-press report gives TiNDLE as 120 kcal, 17 g protein, 180 mg sodium and 1.9 g saturated fat per 100 g; those disagreements are recorded in the research notes and neither figure is tabled as the settled one.

Seen but not verified (nutrition): no per-100 g nutrition panel was verified in this pass for Harvest Gourmet Sensational Burger, OmniMeat Mince, OmniMeat Luncheon, OmniMeat Strips, Quorn Mince, Quorn Meat Free Crispy Nuggets, TiNDLE Breaded Chicken Nuggets, Gardein Ultimate Plant-Based Burger, Gardein Be'f Burger, Karana Minced Jackfruit Meat, Karana Ground Jackfruit Meat, or any product in seen-but-not-verified. Per-serving figures seen but not converted: Gardein Be'f Burger, 14 g protein per serving (serving size not stated in the retrieved listing); TiNDLE Breaded Chicken Nuggets, 11 g protein per serving (PlantX listing); OmniMeat Strips, 18.6 g protein per 100 g (Australian retailer — a per-100 g figure, but for the strips' Australian listing, not verified as the SG pack, so it is not tabled). Their ingredient panels are unchanged; their nutrition figures are not estimated here.

How to read a plant-based meat label — the jargon, in plain English

Methylcellulose (INS 461)

A plant-derived binder/thickener that holds the patty together and gives it a firm bite when cooked. It appears in almost every product on this page, under different names (methylcellulose, thickener INS 461, stabiliser methylcellulose). It is not a protein and not a preservative.

Soy leghemoglobin / heme

The molecule that makes meat taste meaty, made by Impossible from genetically engineered yeast. It is listed as "Soy Leghemoglobin (genetically modified)" on the SG FairPrice list. It is not blood and not animal-derived.

Mycoprotein

Protein made by fermenting a fungus (Fusarium venenatum). Quorn's protein source. It is not soy, pea or wheat — and Quorn mince contains egg white, so it is vegetarian, not vegan.

Textured / texturized protein

Plant protein (soy, pea or wheat) processed with heat and pressure into fibres that feel like meat. "Textured soy protein concentrate" and "texturized protein (soy, wheat gluten, wheat starch)" are the same idea in different brands' wording.

Vital wheat gluten / wheat gluten

The protein part of wheat, used as a binder and for chew. Any product listing it contains gluten — including Harvest Gourmet, OmniMeat Luncheon, TiNDLE and both Gardein burgers. Impossible and Beyond (EU version) do not list it.

Beetroot / beet juice (colour)

Used to give the raw product a pink, meat-like colour that fades as it cooks. It is a colour, not a flavouring — the "bleed" is colour, not blood.

Calcium alginate casing

The sausage skin on Beyond Sausage, made from seaweed-derived alginate rather than an animal casing. It is listed as a stabiliser/gelling agent, not as a separate ingredient in the EU list.

"Plant-based" vs "vegan"

"Plant-based" describes what the product is made from; "vegan" is a stricter claim about animal products and testing. Quorn Mince is plant-based in the loose sense but not vegan (egg white). Check the allergen line, not the front-of-pack claim.

What this page is not

• Not a health score, and not a "best" pick. Soy, pea, mycoprotein and jackfruit products are different products, and this page does not rank them.
• Not a taste test, and not a price comparison. Prices change weekly; ingredients change less often, but still change.
• Not complete. Only 2 of the 16 panelled products come from a Singapore retailer's ingredient section; the rest rest on brand or overseas-retailer lists flagged as such, and the Giant, Sheng Siong, Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee shelves were not fully inventoried in this pass because the search service rate-limited. HAPPIEE!, Green Rebel and several other SG-sold brands remain unverified for the reasons in seen-but-not-verified.

Sources and method

Checked 5–6 November 2026 from: FairPrice ingredient sections (Impossible Plant Burger Patties; Harvest Gourmet Sensational Burger; Impossible Beef product listing, ingredient section not fully retrieved); Impossible Foods FAQ (NZ) and brand nutrition page (Impossible Beef list and per-100 g nutrition); Beyond Meat brand PDFs (EU formulations for the Burger and Sausage, with protein per 100 g); Plant Pantry Australia (OmniMeat Mince, Luncheon and Strips lists); Tesco UK (Quorn Mince and Quorn Meat Free Crispy Nuggets); TiNDLE brand FAQ and PlantX UK (TiNDLE Chicken and Breaded Nuggets); Stop & Shop US and IsItClean (Gardein Be'f and Ultimate burgers); Karana brand site / culinary guides (Minced and Ground jackfruit meat); press and retailer round-ups for SG sale (Moneysmart, City Nomads, The Peak/Business Times, Mothership, Straits Times, Luxe Society Asia, Growthwell Foods, Vegconomist). Cold Storage publishes no ingredient list on any product page, so nothing is panelled from Cold Storage's site. Rate-limit note: on 5 November 2026 the web search service returned HTTP 429 (too many requests) during the inventory searches for FairPrice category listings, Harvest Gourmet/TiNDLE/Gardein/Karana follow-ups were completed one at a time after a wait, but the Giant, Sheng Siong, Don Don Donki, Mustafa, Meidi-Ya, Le Petit Depot, Little Farms, RedMart, Lazada and Shopee category inventories could not be completed in this pass — those channels are listed as not fully checked, not as checked-and-empty. Full per-fact source list is in the accompanying research notes. Nutrition section added 5–6 November 2026: figures are standardised to per 100 g where the source gives per-100 figures; per-serving-only figures are labelled as such and are not converted; sugars are total sugars as printed, not added sugars, unless the source states added sugars; salt = sodium × 2.5. Where a full pack list could not be verified, the product is in seen-but-not-verified instead of being panelled.