#primal strips

[tfeesloth]

Delicious and cruelty free 😄🌿

[veganjerky]

Primal Strips - Hot & Spicy, Teriyaki, and Thai Peanut

Primal strips are omnipresent in health food stores, co-ops, and other hippie haunts. They come in single-serving packages, and the ingredients are all fancy and natural. They don't have MSG unlike the Asian grocery type jerkies, but seriously dude, if you're not allergic to MSG it's no worse for you than salt.

Hot & Spicy

Yep, it is a strip. A brown strip. This strip is moist but not oily to the touch. The texture is medium chewy and fibrous. Hot & spicy has a higher mushroom content than the other two flavors (which have more wheat gluten) and this seems to make it chewier and drier. It's still not a lot of work to chew this up. I'm still searching for a vegan jerky that really takes some effort to chew; it may not exist.

It smells very strongly of soy sauce and the flavor is underlying soy and shiitake mushroom, a bit sweet, with strong black pepper flavors providing the spice. It's not super duper spicy (keep in mind I have a very strong tolerance for spice), but there is a spiciness unlike some other food products that are supposed to be spicy and are just sweet or a teensy bit peppery. It has a little bit of an afterburn. It is pretttty salty and made me want to have a drink right away.

Teriyaki

Teriyaki is lighter colored, softer and wetter than hot & spicy, and much easier to pull apart. The wheat gluten-based strip comes apart in layers, with a texture which will be familiar to you if you've ever had fried gluten from  a can. Kind of... rubbery, but not in an unpleasant way. Like snappy rubbery. What am I even talking about.

The flavor is mild, a little sour,  fairly sweet. Pretty typical teriyaki flavor. Kinda boring both in flavor and texture when compared to the other two.

Thai Peanut

This is the same wheat-gluteny texture as the teriyaki. It's possibly even wetter with peanut sauce on the outside of it.

The flavor is great - like a mild Thai peanut sauce. There is a distinct lime taste, and Thai basil is actually listed in the ingredients and you can definitely taste it. It actually tastes less sweet to me than the teriyaki, which is surprising since the sugar content is higher. It's not spicy at all

Overall, these are good enough for when I'm hungry at the hippie store and I want a salty, satisfying snack to tide me over, but they're not something I get cravings for. I'd like to have the flavor of the Thai peanut with the texture and heat level of the hot & spicy, but this would probably still not be a top #1 jerky for me even then. Not chewy enough, too wet, not delicious enough.

Hot & Spicy Ingredients: shitake mushrooms, water, naturally brewed soy sauce (water, non gmo soybeans, wheat, sea salt), expeller pressed canola oil, licorice root, non-gmo vital gluten (wheat protein), seaweed extract, unrefined evaporated cane juice, non-gmo isolated high fiber soy protein, sea salt, natural vegetarian spices.

One package is one serving and contains 334 mg of sodium.

Teriyaki Ingredients: Non-gmo vital gluten (wheat protein), water, naturally brewed soy sauce (water, non gmo soybeans, wheat, sea salt), expeller pressed canola oil, licorice root, unrefined evaporated cane juice, sea salt, natural vegetarian spices. 314 mg sodium.

Thai peanut ingredients: Non-gmo vital gluten (wheat protein), water, unrefined evaporated cane juice, naturally brewed soy sauce (water, non gmo soybeans, wheat, sea salt), expeller pressed canola oil, peanut butter, vinegar, fresh Thai basil, sea salt, natural vegetarian spices. 353mg sodium.

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Product Review: Primal Strips Mesquite Lime Vegan Jerky

Product Review: Primal Strips Mesquite Lime Vegan Jerky

My Great Books I: Introduction to Classical Literature course got seriously wacky. Case in point: we started discussing “meat globes.” If you have no idea what a meat globe is, that’s because my class invented the concept. It’s essentially a basketball. Of meat. Pretty sure even non-vegans would find that unappealing.

Anyways, it got me thinking about weird meat forms, which inevitably led me to…

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PRIMAL STRIPS

Here's Els modelling the 'Teriyaki', and 'Hickory Smoked' varieties of Primal Strips, which are kind of like a vegan jerky. 

(This was a pre-pregnancy, pre-foot fracture walk on the tops above Mytholmroyd)

[onlyposers-die]

I need to order these in bulk.

[byefuhleesha]

one thing i really resent parker for is getting me addicted to primal strips.

[sidhera]

Okay, so they look kinda gross, but these are seriously the best things ever.

[greenfinchandlinnetbird]

Primal Strips, Meatless Vegan Jerky… Had for the first time today. I was like, “This isn’t meat?!" Sooooo good. Pretty comparable to beef jerky, nutrition-facts wise. Same amount of protein. (I compared it to Slim Jim beef jerky, same serving size.)