Vegetarian meat is a kind of vegetable protein as the main raw material, through modern food processing technology such as extrusion cooking to form the organization of meat-like texture and flavor of vegetarian food. Meat-like flavors can be achieved by the use of a combination of a Meladic reaction or the addition of meat flavoring.

The background of the development of vegetarian meat is a new variety of bionic food, to meet the needs of consumers, with the imitation of natural food, easy to eat, nutritious and healthy and other characteristics. Vegetarian meat is one of the popular bionic foods, using advanced modern food processing technology, through the molding, steaming, frying and other processes processed to imitate meat food, appearance, color, aroma, taste and so on similar to meat. Raw materials used in the production of vegetarian meat mainly include soy protein, wheat protein, konjac and edible mushrooms.