Boca Burger is a
veggie burger
A veggie burger is a hamburger patty that does not contain meat. It may be made from ingredients like beans, especially soybeans and tofu, nuts, grains, seeds or fungi such as mushrooms or mycoprotein.
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produced by
Kraft Heinz
The Kraft Heinz Company (KHC), commonly known as Kraft Heinz, is an American multinational food company formed by the merger of Kraft Foods and Heinz co-headquartered in Chicago and Pittsburgh. Kraft Heinz is the third-largest food and beverage ...
in
Chicago, Illinois
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. Like all of Boca Foods' products, Boca Burgers serve as a
meat alternative.
History
The Boca Foods Company began in 1979 with the
vegetarian
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"Sun Burger" product, as one of the first frozen, plant-based burger replacement products. Over the next decade, more burgers were introduced, as well as
meatless versions of
ground beef
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,
chicken nuggets
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, various toppings on
pizza,
chili,
lasagna
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, and
sausage
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...
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Organic versions of some Boca products appeared in 2001.
Then
Kraft Foods
The second incarnation of Kraft Foods is an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz in 2015.
A merger with Heinz, arran ...
, the United States' largest packaged foods company, announced in early 2000 that it had reached agreement to purchase Boca Burger, Inc., a privately held manufacturer and marketer of
soy
The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (''Glycine max'') is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.
Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu and ...
-based
meat alternatives. The announcement was made when
Kraft Foods
The second incarnation of Kraft Foods is an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, split from Kraft Foods Inc. in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It became part of Kraft Heinz in 2015.
A merger with Heinz, arran ...
was represented by Gordon James and
Clifford A. Wolff. The products are sold in the United States through retail grocery and club stores, natural foods stores and food service channels nationwide. Boca Burger, based in
Chicago, Illinois
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, had 1999 revenues of about $40 million, almost double the previous year.
By 2002, sales had grown to $70 million per year.
As of April 2020, Boca also offers meatless skillet meals.
Awards
See also
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List of meat substitutes
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List of vegetarian and vegan companies
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Vegetarian and vegan companies
Gen ...
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Veganism
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Veggie burger
A veggie burger is a hamburger patty that does not contain meat. It may be made from ingredients like beans, especially soybeans and tofu, nuts, grains, seeds or fungi such as mushrooms or mycoprotein.
The patties that are the essence of a ve ...
References
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Kraft Foods brands
Meat substitutes
Vegetarian companies and establishments of the United States
Soy product brands
Food and drink introduced in 1979