Eggs, quite honestly, are little miracles. They’re used in nearly infinite ways in all different kinds of cooking. So you when you’re dealing with an egg allergy, it can take dozens of different ingredients to replicate what an egg can do. Whether it’s corn starch as a binding agent in frying, or hydrated flax seeds as a binding agent in baking, or aquafaba as a “fluffing” agent in place of egg whites — not to mention applesauce, baking soda, vinegar… the list goes on and on.
But what about when you want something to pair with a side of bacon? When what you want is just… eggs?
Enter Just EGG.
With the key ingredient of mung bean protein, combined with some of the usual vegan suspects (soy, tapioca, etc.) and colored with turmeric, Just EGG aims to simulate the look, texture, and overall flavor profile of scrambled eggs. Just heat up your favorite allergy-safe skillet with a tab of vegan butter, shake up the bottle, and pour.
We have a philosophy of sorts on this site. We don’t want to try to convince you (or ourselves) that an allergy-friendly substitute tastes exactly like the real thing, except in those rare cases where it really does. So, no, Just EGG does not taste close enough to real scrambled eggs to fool anybody. It tastes more along the lines of tofu.
But as far as the texture and the overall flavor profile, it falls into the same zone as scrambled eggs, and that’s a very valuable thing. It means our family can have a warm, hearty bacon-and-eggs breakfast without our allergic kids feeling left out. We’ve also occasionally given it to our non-allergic son as well. Although he can tell the difference, he personally recommends it as long as you mix in some Old Bay hot sauce. It also works great for French toast when we have some leftover allergy-friendly bread to use.
JUST Egg is manufactured by Eat JUST, Inc. and they’ve ramped up their production and distribution in the last few years, so you can find JUST Egg on many grocery store shelves. Price-wise, it’s probably never going to be as cheap as regular scrambled eggs, but it does seem to be getting cheaper now that it’s more widely available. We pretty much always have some in our fridge, and we heartily recommend it to anyone else with an egg allergy in the family.
