Beyond Meat’s newest sausages aren’t pretending to be meat anymore

Beyond Sun Sausage isn’t meant to mimic meat. Instead, it features whole vegetables and legumes.

Alt-meat companies like Beyond have long made plant-based proteins that look to mimic their animal counterparts, whether beef burgers or pork sausages. But Beyond Meat’s latest offering is putting the “plants” back in plant-based meat: called Beyond Sun Sausage, it features fruits, vegetables, and legumes—and isn’t meant to be an animal-meat imitation at all.