Pokéworks to Provide Vegan Crab Legs in USA – vegconomist

Pokeworks, the world’s main fast-casual poke model, introduced this week that it’s teaming up with Aquamar, a producer of surimi, for a number of new merchandise together with vegan crab legs.

Surimi is a product used for imitation crab produced from fish flesh, usually Alaskan pollock, that has been deboned, washed to take away fats and undesirable bits, then minced and blended with sugar or sweeteners. Surimi is broadly utilized in sushi rolls, crab desserts and seafood salad and has been known as the new “canine of the ocean.”

In keeping with a press launch, Aquamar is to produce Pokeworks with a number of new merchandise which is able to reportedly embrace vegan crab legs. The vegan crab legs are usually not but listed on the Aquamar web site nor the Pokeworks website. Vegconomist has contacted the press individuals and can report with additional particulars.

Pokeworks has elevated its vegan choices just lately, for instance with a partnership with OmniFoods for a trial launch of Omni Musubi together with the well-known OmniFoods SPAM, as a recreation of Pokeworks’ standard Garlic Spam Musubi.

In December of final 12 months, the cultivated seafood producer Wildtype introduced distribution partnerships with each SNOWFOX and Pokéworks for its cultivated salmon, with Justin Kolbeck, co-founder and CEO of Wildtype stating on the time, “Our agreements with Pokéworks and SNOWFOX will assist introduce Wildtype’s cultivated salmon to individuals in search of wholesome seafood choices which might be really sustainable. This can be a important milestone as we transfer nearer to bringing our cultivated salmon to eating places, grocery shops, and ultimately kitchen tables throughout the US.”