Confusingly...not vegan?

Egg-free egg salad base

Brand: Kaldi Coffee Farm

Price: 180 yen

Place of purchase: Kaldi Coffee Farm

Rating:

This is an interesting product if you have some tofu languishing in your fridge that you want to use up. It's a powdered mix that you combine with mashed tofu, and it honestly does a solid job in looking and tasting like the contents of an egg salad sandwich. When we buy tofu for certain recipes we often have some leftover, so if your household is the same then this could be a good item to try. It's pretty inexpensive, too, at 180 yen for the packet, so if you are trying to incorporate more plant-based protein like tofu in your diet it can be a budget-friendly way to give it a familiar flavor.

I honestly bought this thinking it was a fully vegan mixture, but the ingredients list contains dried egg yolk powder -- a.k.a. not vegan at all. I feel like this is an odd product because of that, since you're trying to create the flavor and texture of an egg salad sando with tofu, but you're using egg yolk powder anyway? It's also named quite confusingly, since it's called an "egg-free egg salad base" but it's not really egg-free. Anyway, if you are vegan, don't get confused by this! It's great if you're not vegan and just trying to get more plant-based protein in your life, but I think they need to make it more clear that it does contain actual powdered egg yolks.