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Not mentioned in this article, but the Gardein brand vegan fish fillets and crab cakes are excellent and already available at grocery stores.

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Yes! These things are some of the best faux-meats out there.

Hi, how does it compare to the nutritional value?

I saw that that the 'The Impossible Burger' contains near equal nutritional value of real meat; does the veg fish fillets and crab cakes you speak of contain Vitamin D3 and other essential vitamins seen mostly only in sea food?

Humans mostly synthesise Vitamin D. Plus foods like eggs contain them and milk in a lot of countries is fortified with vitamin d. Seafood is not the only source of that essential vitamin.

Vegans don't consume eggs or milk - and vitamin D deficiency is a very real issue at northern latitudes in winter, even for meat eaters.

Vitamin D3 is not synthesised properly for many leading to several bone related issues, I'm one of them. In natural sources it is found only in animal products especially in fish.

One can consider a supplement. It's not strictly "natural", but cooking animal products instead of eating them raw isn't exactly "natural" either..

Unfortunately there is no Vitamin D3 in these products, here is one of the nutrition labels: https://www.nutritionix.com/i/gardein/fishless-filet/5460edc...

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