Quorn

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Quorn is a very special, fascinating food. Even its history is interesting.
For a long time there has been a search for a single cell protein, a source of highly-nutritious food to feed the growing world population. This research has been more intense in difficult times, during world wars I and II (source: Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America). During the Second World War, when Britain's food supplies were severely reduced by German U-boats, the ever-resourceful Brits started to search for a new, yet undiscovered source of food which had to be highly nutritious and especially rich in protein content, to replace meat and animal products.
They found it in a field in the Thames Valley, near Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in the form of an organism occurring naturally in soil. It was a microscopic fungus, Fusarium graminearum. Fungi are the family of plants to which mushrooms belong. It was named 'mycoprotein' ('myco' is Greek for fungus), and it was found to be very nutritious, not least because it contains high quality protein and fibre, but is also low in fat.
It was only after the war, though, in the 1960s, that nutritionists, food scientists and health experts, concerned that the predicted growth in population would lead to future global protein shortages, became interested in this microscopic plant organism.

So, research and product development work progressed, and mycoprotein was developed by Rank Hovis and McDougall.
It wasn't until the early 1980s that mycoprotein, this unique ingredient, could be grown on a commercial scale, and soon after that it was officially approved for food use by the UK's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF).
The new food is now, since 1986, manufactured and marketed under the name of Quorn by Marlow Foods Ltd (named after the area of its discovery).
Quorn debuted in Western Europe a few years later, in 1992. Quorn products are the top selling meat-free brand throughout the United Kingdom, parts of Europe, and the United States, and have been used by millions of consumers.

Mycoprotein is a food made by continuous fermentation of the fungus Fusarium gramineurum. The fungus is grown in a large temperature-controlled fermentation tower to which oxygen, nitrogen, glucose, minerals, and vitamins are continually added. After harvesting, the fungus is heat treated to reduce its RNA (ribonucleic acid) content to World Health Organization recommended levels before being filtered and drained. The resulting sheet of fungal mycelia is mixed with binders, sometimes flavorings and other ingredients. The mycoprotein is then textured to resemble meat, before being sliced, diced or shredded. Afterwards, it can be shaped and sized into burgers, sausages and cutlets.

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Quorn types & range of products

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Like soy, Quorn is tasteless before it is flavored, which makes it an enormously versatile ingredient in foods. Where it may surpass soya, it is in its resemblance to real meats, for people who are interested in that. Quorn has a fibrousness that makes the sensory experience of chewing a Quorn chicken cutlet seem remarkably like the real thing.

Quorn can be sold in a wide, tasty range of forms:

• ready meals, including curries, pies, casseroles, lasagne and many others
• burgers, sausages, deli items, entrees, grills, breaded fillets
• ingredients: chunks, mince, fillets, pieces, Swedish style balls, cutlets, steaks and a broad variety of others; these can be used as a hugely versatile ingredient to be cooked in a variety of recipes, grilled, sauteed, baked, casseroled and more

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Quorn nutritional profile

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Quorn products:

• Contain high quality protein and dietary fibre
• Are generally lower in fat than their meat equivalents
• Contain little or no animal fat
• Are generally lower in calories than their meat equivalents
• Contain little or no cholesterol

2. Quorn food products are significantly lower in fat, saturated fat and calories than many equivalent meat products.
With the increasing awareness of diet and health, many people are choosing to cut down on red meat or even to cut meat out of their diets altogether. Because Quorn products generally have a lower fat content than red meats, they allow people to cut down their meat intake but still enjoy its taste and texture, whilst following current dietary recommendations, reduce intake of fats and increase intake of complex carbohydrates (dietary fibre).
According to targets set out in official guidelines, we need to reduce our total fat intake from 40% to no more than 35% of our food energy. In addition, an increase in dietary fibre intake is recommended.
Quorn products can play a valuable part in achieving this because a nutritional comparison shows that they all have significantly lower fat contents and higher fibre contents than their meat equivalents.

3. Quorn products are also less energy dense than equivalent meat products.
Energy density is a measure of the energy content (calories) per weight of food. Studies suggest that diets of low energy density may be helpful in loosing and/or controlling weight.
Quorn foods can meet slimming needs. Quorn is such a good food for slimmers, that a specific Quorn Diet has been developed: the Sally Ann Voak's Quorn Diet. It can be used by both women and men.

4. Coronary heart disease is one of the UK's two major killers and it is the Government's intention to reduce death from heart attacks by encouraging citizens to reduce the amount of fat in their diet. Many Quorn products are cholesterol free and studies have shown that regularly eating mycoprotein, the major component of Quorn products, may actually help reduce levels of cholesterol in blood serum.

5. Mycoprotein is a source of biotin, iron and zinc.

6. Research on mycoprotein, the principal ingredient of Quorn products, has shown that mycoprotein has beneficial effects on appetite control and maintaining healthy blood cholesterol levels in areas such as satiety, lipids, and cholesterol reduction. These benefits have been confirmed through a series of clinical nutrition studies, clinical trials and university research. Some of their details are below.

Mycoprotein has beneficial effects on blood lipids (fatty substances). The consumption of mycoprotein under both controlled and free-living studies has been shown to reduce significantly total and LDL serum cholesterol levels, and occasionally to raise HDL levels. These studies are reported in the literature (Udall et al. 1984, Turnbull et al. 1990, Turnbull et al. 1992, Nakamura et al. 1994) and all included the consumption of realistic amounts of mycoprotein.
The general consensus of the various authors was that mycoprotein consumption advantageously altered serum lipid variables.

It has an important, beneficial effect on glycemic response (blood sugar levels). A study (Turnbull et al. 1995) was carried out to investigate the effect of mycoprotein consumption on acute glycaemia and insulinaemia in normal healthy individuals. The results showed that glycaemia was reduced post-meal compared with the control and was statistically significant at 60 minutes (13% reduction). Insulinaemia was also reduced post-meal compared with the control and was statistically significant at 30 min (19% reduction) and 60 minutes (36% reduction). The authors concluded that mycoprotein could be of benefit in the dietary treatment of diabetes.

Two studies at different centres in the UK, Leeds (Burley et al 1993) and London (Turnbull et al. 1993) showed that a mycoprotein lunch has a clear effect on "late satiety" - ie the amount of food consumed in the evening was less after mycoprotein, than after a control lunch. This and further analysis of the data generated led Burley et al. to declare that: "These data have clear implications for the use of mycoprotein for the control of appetite and body weight."

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