What's in Those Nuggets? Meat Substitute Stirs Debate

Now Quorn has come to America. Since January, Americans have bought half a million boxes in health food stores and supermarkets, at an average of $3.79 each. But Quorn has managed to infuriate competitors, fungus experts and a food safety group, who say Marlow Foods is not quite telling the truth about what's in those nuggets.

A major sore point is Quorn's labeling, which says its chief ingredient "comes from a small, unassuming member of the mushroom family."

Three scientists who study fungi, or mycologists, from Penn State University say calling the source of Quorn a mushroom "is analogous to calling a rat a chicken because both are animals." True, a mushroom is a fungus, and so is quorn, but there the resemblance ends, they insist. Quorn is made from a fungus that they say is "more accurately described as a `mold.' "
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