Grizzly Foods Vegan Jerky Cracked Pepper

Grizzly Foods Vegan Jerky Cracked Pepper — the peppery meat-free one

Grizzly Foods Vegan Jerky Cracked Pepper is a plant-based jerky built on European soy, marinated, dried and briefly smoked over beech wood. It is the savoury, peppery member of the three meat-free bags Grizzly Foods makes, and the one that most convincingly passes for dried meat.

Why this one

• Texture that holds up: dense and genuinely chewy, not the crumbly snap of most plant snacks.
• A brewed marinade: it gives the pieces a hearty, almost meaty savouriness before the pepper even arrives.
• High in protein and fibre: entirely from plants, and filling with it.
• European soy: Grizzly Foods sources its plant protein from European growers, which keeps the supply chain short.

How Grizzly Foods makes it

Textured, defatted soy is marinated in a traditionally brewed soy sauce until it takes on a proper savoury depth, then seasoned with black pepper and a pinch of allspice, dried, and given a short pass over beech wood smoke. The smoking is brief by design — long enough to round the flavour off, short enough that the pepper stays the headline.

Taste and texture: peppery and warm rather than hot, with an onion-and-garlic savouriness underneath and a faint smokiness at the end. The bite is the surprising part, because it tears and chews like jerky instead of shattering, which is the thing most meat-free snacks never manage. Among its siblings, this is the grown-up savoury one.

Who it is for

Mixed households, mostly. It is the bag that can sit in a shared snack drawer without anybody feeling short-changed. Also for plant-based eaters who are tired of sweet fruit-and-nut bars and would like something salty for once, and for meat eaters who want to run the taste test themselves.

Frequently asked

• Does it actually chew like jerky? Closer than you would expect. Dense and slow, rather than crisp.
• How many vegan flavours are there? Three: this one, a Teriyaki and a Burn Baby Burn. Cracked Pepper is the savoury starting point.
• What size is the pack? A 30 g bag, with a case of 16 for anyone who has done the arithmetic on buying one at a time.

Order Grizzly Foods Vegan Jerky Cracked Pepper at Jerky Store Europe

In stock in both sizes and shipping fast across Europe from Jerky Store Europe.