Are the days of seeing ‘vegan boerewors’ or ‘chicken style’ plant-based nuggets in the supermarket behind us?
This seems to be the case with new draft regulations published by Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen.
These new rules restrict how plant-based meat alternatives can be labelled in South Africa.
Under these rules, products like vegan sausages, mushroom biltong, or plant-based chicken nuggets cannot use traditional meat-related terms on their packaging.
However, terms like ‘soya sausage’ or ‘veggie burger’ are still allowed, as long as products are very clearly labelled as plant-based.
The regulations also require anything marketed as a meat alternative to have a minimum protein requirement of 9%.
