Warning about Quorn Vegetarian products

For any one that has used the terms plant based to define this product and also anyone who agrees they should be supported because they are cruelty free, well they aren't  really plant based are they,  they use eggs and dairy, also I don't think they represent cruelty free again because they use egg and dairy, and probably sourced from horrific procedures. Frys and sanitarium are a much more friendlier on the planet and animals.

Glad I read this.  I ate 2 of their sausages last night and this afternoon I am feeling quite unwell.  Not sure of the cause as yet but a bit of a coincidence???

So your mum, along with some others that have commented, are just allergic to the type of fungus (mycoprotein) they use in quorn products. That is like with anything though - some things make people sick and some things don't. Just like some people are allergic to nuts, soy etc. and others aren't. We sometimes don't know until we try the product. Quorn have the mycoprotein written in the allergen advice section of their website and from what I can remember, on their packets too. It really isn't the companies fault that your mother just happened to be allergic to it. It doesn't make the product bad any more than it makes a packet of peanuts bad.

In medication they have penicillin, which is also from mould. Some people are allergic to it and some aren't. I guess it is a similar thing to mycoprotein.

I don't think it is necessary for people to try and ban a product simply because THEY had an adverse reaction to it. This would be like banning products with penicillin or peanuts etc. to which MANY people have had adverse reactions. There is no logic in it.

The only thing bad about the product is they have yet to go completely vegan, but when they do, I will be surely buying the product. I never got sick eating Quorn in the past when I was vegetarian

Sounds like you're lobbying from the meat industry.
So you got food poisoning, I will guarantee that you will rarely get it again being vegetarian.
I would say that eating Quorn like it's meat, slabs of it served with a few vegetables, is probably not conducive to a settled tum; especially if you have just stopped eating meat.
Imagine if the roles were reversed and a vegetarian started to eat meat every day.

Being a vegetarian, I ate Quorn a couple of times a week for many years in the UK. I also suffered from tons of migraine headaches.

I moved to Australia and the migraines stopped instantly. I examined all the food I ate to see what was different. The only thing I cam up with was Quorn which was not available in Australia. Then I decided to look it up on line and bingo - tons of complaints about it causing migraines. I hadn't even thought to check out this mushroom derivative before. I wish I had. It would have saved me a million miles of pain. I have now been in Australia 10 years and no more migraines. Now unfortunately Quorn has been  imported into Australia. So  a lot of people will no doubt end up as I did - in pain.

I have a freezer full of quorn due to my friend Aizaz Hassan