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    The Best Store Brand Vegan Burgers Review & Taste Test

    Published: Jul 1, 2021 · Modified: Aug 11, 2022 by Larisha Bernard · This post may contain affiliate links · Leave a Comment

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    We taste tested 7 different store brand vegan burger brands! We’re dishing out all the details on which is the best in our vegan burgers review and taste test!

    Vegan burger packages with the words Vegan store brand burger taste test overlayed.

    There are so many vegan burgers out now that it’s harder to keep up. Not only are there name brand vegan burgers, however there are a ton of store brand vegan burgers now as well.

    We had tried more of these than we had in our name brand vegan burger before our video; however we still weren’t sure what to this.

    If you haven’t seen our other taste tests, we hope you’ll check those out as well.

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    We know this isn’t all the vegan burgers out there either! There were other brands that we weren’t able to find or aren’t located near us.

    Watch our best vegan burgers taste test:

    PSA: 

    We know that everyone has different taste buds.  What we may think is the best, may completely vary from what you actually like.  

    You may ultimately think our best is the worst and that’s okay.  We created this video as hopefully a starting point for people and we can only go off our opinion. 

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    What vegan burger brands did we try?

    Despite trying out 9 different brands, we know that there are even more out there.  We just didn’t find them local to us.  The brands that we did find and try are: 

    • Target
    • Whole Foods
    • Acme
    • Aldi
    • Trader Joes

    How did we do the vegan burger taste test?

    It was really quite simple.  

    We made the burgers according to the packages. Put them onto the same buns and added ketchup. We try to keep it neutral for our taste test videos so that we are focusing on the product and not a bunch of different toppings or things to detract from the actual vegan burger.

    We were looking for mostly taste and texture. Our goal was to find the one closest to what we remember meat based burgers tasting like.

    Good & Gather vegan burger product packages.

    Target Plant Based Meatless Beef-Style Patties (Bag)

    Thoughts: These were pretty good!

    Where to Buy: Target

    Ingredients for Target Burger: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Wheat Gluten, Expeller Pressed Sunflower Oil, Onion, Soy Protein Isolate, Methylcellulose, Natural Flavor, Malt Extract, Yeast Extract, Onion Powder, Organic Cane Sugar, Dried Onion, Garlic Powder, Potato Starch, Sea Salt, Salt, Pea Protein Isolate, Carrot Fiber, Spices.

    Top 9 Allergens: Soy, Wheat

    Price: $3.49 for 4

    Target Plant Based Patties (Package)

    Thoughts: We loved these!

    Where to Buy: Target

    Ingredients for Target Burger: Water, Pea Protein, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, Natural Flavors, Contains Less Than 2% Of Vegetable And Fruit Juice For Color, Methyl Cellulose, Carrageenan, Yeast Extract, Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Cultured Dextrose, Spices, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder.

    Top 9 Allergens: Soy, Coconut.

    Price: $4.79 for 2

    365 Plant-based burger product packages.

    Whole Foods 365 Meatless Plant Based Burger Patties (package)

    Thoughts: We didn’t like

    Where to Buy: Whole Foods

    Ingredients For Burger: Water, Textured Pea Concentrate (Pea Protein Isolate, Pea Concentrate, Pea Fiber), Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Pea Protein Isolate, Natural Flavors, Methylcellulose, Citrus Fiber, Cultured Dextrose, Fruit and Vegetable Juice For Color (Apple, Red Beet), Black Pepper, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder

    Top 9 Allergens: None listed.

    Price: $4.99 for 2

    Whole Foods 365 Meatless Plant Based Burger Patties (box)

    Thoughts: Before cooking this one was pinkish but goes as much as the Impossible. It was very juicy (sort of odd honestly compared to the others). There was a slight “dog food” smell before cooking but not after and not like Meatless Farm. There are lots of white chunks in this one. There was more grease cooking this one. The overall taste and texture is pretty good on this one.

    Where to Buy: Whole Foods

    Ingredients For Burger: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Onions, Expeller Pressed Sunflower Seed Oil, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Natural Flavors, Yeast Extract, Dried Garlic, Barley Malt Extract, Sea Salt, Organic Cane Sugar, Onion Powder, Salt, Spices.

    Top 9 Allergens: Soy.

    Price: $3.99 for 4

    Earth Grown Vegan Empower burger patties package.

    Aldi Earth Grown Empower Burger

    Thoughts: Just no

    Where to Buy: Aldi

    Ingredients for Burger: will update

    Top 9 Allergens:

    Price:

    Trader Joe\'s Plant-Based burger protein patties package.

    Trader Joe’s Protein Patties Plant-Based Burgers

    Thoughts: We like these!

    Where to Buy: Trader Joe’s

    Ingredients For Plant Based Burger: HYDRATED PEA PROTEIN BLEND (WATER, PEA PROTEIN, PEA FIBER), SUNFLOWER OIL, BEETS, NATURAL FLAVORS, METHYL CELLULOSE, OAT FIBER, FRUIT JUICE (COLOR), ONION POWDER, SEA SALT, VEGETABLE JUICE (COLOR).

    Top 9 Allergens: None listed.

    Price: $4.49 for 2

    O Organics plant-based power burger package.

    Acme O Organics Plant Based Power Burger

    Thoughts: Not a big fan

    Where to Buy: Acme

    Ingredients for Plant Based Burgers: Organic Protein Blend (Organic Soy Flour, Organic Cooked Garbanzo [Organic Garbanzo Beans, Water], Organic Pea Protein), Water, Organic Soybean Oil, Organic Flaxseed Meal, Organic Onion, Organic Garlic, Organic Red Bell Pepper Powder, Organic Cornstarch, Organic Brown Rice Flour, Sea Salt, Organic Spices.

    Top Allergens: Soy

    Price: $5.49 for 2

    Are these vegan burger brands allergy friendly?

    We listed the allergens under each but just so it’s easier to find we wanted to list it here as well.

    All of these are vegan so they are automatically dairy free and egg free. None of them listed sesame or peanuts as an ingredient. They are also all fish and shellfish free.

    That leaves soy, gluten, nuts and coconut as top allergens in the US.

    Contains Coconut: Target (package),

    Contains Wheat: Target (Bag)

    Coconut Soy: Target (bag), Target (package), Whole Foods (box), Acme

    No Top 9 Allergens Listed: Whole Foods (package), Trader Joe’s

    Who was the winner?

    Okay. I put you through all that just to make you wait until here until I announce the winner.  You know, wait with baited breath, type of thing! HA!

    Again, we were pleasantly surprised with all the brands we were able to find and what that means for the future of those of us that are vegan or living a dairy free lifestyle. 

    Now, without further ado! 

    Our top 3 brands (in order) would be:

    • Target (package)
    • Trader Joe’s
    • Target (bag)
    • Whole Foods (box)

    We would not recommend the Aldi burger or the Whole Foods one in a package.

    Do you agree with us?  Have you tried any of these ? Tell us below!  

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    Do you have an idea for a future taste test?  Let us know in the comments! 

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