{"id":157347,"date":"2023-02-08T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-vegan-egg-makes-its-debut-in-us-restaurants-this-week"},"modified":"2023-02-08T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T03:22:19","slug":"this-vegan-egg-makes-its-debut-in-us-restaurants-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-vegan-egg-makes-its-debut-in-us-restaurants-this-week","title":{"rendered":"This Vegan Egg Makes Its Debut in US Restaurants This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/108650530?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The price of eggs has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/02\/03\/briefing\/why-eggs-cost-so-much.html\">more than doubled<\/a> in the last year due to inflation, avian flu outbreaks, and the war in Ukraine. But demand for the breakfast and baking staple hasn\u2019t gone down much; people like eggs, and there aren\u2019t many viable substitutes that truly taste, look, and perform like the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli startup called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yo-egg.com\/\">Yo Egg<\/a> thinks it has a solution in the form of vegan eggs. The product doesn\u2019t share much with real eggs in terms of composition, but the company says it\u2019s achieved a near-exact match in taste and texture.<\/p>\n<p>Yo eggs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yo-egg.com\/about\/faq\">are made<\/a> primarily of water, vegetable oil, soy protein, and chickpea protein, with small amounts of other ingredients including potato starch, yeast, and seaweed extract. One egg has 40 calories, 1 gram of fat, no cholesterol, and 3 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of eggs has more than doubled in the last year due to inflation, avian flu outbreaks, and the war in Ukraine. But demand for the breakfast and baking staple hasn\u2019t gone down much; people like eggs, and there aren\u2019t many viable substitutes that truly taste, look, and perform like the real thing. An [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}