A new animal-free fat for plant-based meats promises the real taste of chicken. Does it live up to the hype?

We try Tastilux, an Australian product that promises to mimic the flavour and mouthfeel of meat

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I am biting into a drumstick that took three years to make. It is a piece of plant-based protein, fashioned into the likeness of a chicken leg, complete with a faux bone (edible), and glazed with something wet and brown. The bone is brittle and strangely sweet, the flesh a little chewy and rubbery.

But the glaze has an unmistakably creamy, mouth-coating texture, just like chicken fat. It is remarkably familiar. Boringly predictable. It tastes, as they say, like chicken. I signed a waiver for this?

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