Indiana Vegan Hot & Sweet

Indiana Vegan Hot & Sweet: plant-based jerky that bites back

Indiana Vegan Hot & Sweet is a meat-free jerky alternative built on a pea and sunflower protein base, dried into strips and finished with smoky chilli heat and a sweet edge. It is the loud half of Indiana's vegan pair, and the one to hand anybody who assumes plant-based snacking means politely flavoured cardboard.

Why this one

• Sweet first, heat second: the two arrive in order rather than fighting, so the chilli lands after you have already committed to another piece.
• High in protein, with no animal in it: the plant blend is doing real work here, not padding.
• It actually chews: strips that pull apart in strands instead of snapping like a crisp.
• 25 g bags or a fifteen-pack: one to test the theory, fifteen once the theory holds.

How Indiana makes it

Indiana blends the plant protein base with seasoning, forms it into strips and dries them slowly so the texture stays fibrous rather than crumbly. The chilli and the sweet, faintly caramelised backbone go on before drying, so the flavour sits inside the strip rather than dusting your fingers. Bags are filled under a protective atmosphere, and Indiana asks that you keep this one out of the fridge and finish an open bag within a couple of days.

Taste and texture

Dark and sticky-sweet up front, with a tomato-and-caramel depth underneath that reads almost barbecue. Then the chilli turns up, slow and rounded rather than sharp, and settles into a warm glow that lasts into the next piece. The texture is fibrous and slightly springy, closer to a pulled strip than a pressed bar. Alongside the Vegan Original it is darker, sweeter and considerably less well behaved.

Who it is for

Vegans bored of sweet snacks who want something savoury with heat in it. Meat-eaters doing a few plant-based days a week and refusing to lose flavour over it. And mixed households that would rather buy one bag everyone raids than two nobody finishes.

Frequently asked

How hot is it? Warm and building rather than fierce. The sweetness takes the top off the chilli, so it reads as a glow rather than a challenge.

How does it compare to the Vegan Original? Original is the savoury, smoky baseline. Hot & Sweet takes that and layers sweetness and chilli over the top. Start with Original if you want to ease in.

Should it go in the fridge? No. Indiana's pack guidance is explicitly not to refrigerate it, so a cupboard is the right home.

Order Indiana Vegan Hot & Sweet at Jerky Store Europe

Available as single 25 g bags or fifteen-pack cases, shipped fast across Europe from Jerky Store Europe.