I want to eat a 'veggie sausage', not a 'mycoproteinous food tube' | Phoebe-Jane Boyd

France is banning producers of meat-substitute food from using words like ‘burger’ as it’s ‘misleading’. As double-standards go, this is a whopperMycoprotein, fusarium venenatum, fermentation, albumen, cultures, coagulating, curdling – these aren’t tasty words. Some of them are quite disgusting, actually. But if you’re vegan or vegetarian and incorporate meat substitutes into your daily diet, you’ll recognise them as the words in tiny font on