Have been almost completly vegetarian for the last 4 and a half years and was pretty much a carnivore before that, so I feel this is as unbiased of an opinion as is possible.
The Beyond, Gardien, Impossible, etc fake chicken have more flavor, nearly indistinguishable texture, are just as juicy, and aren’t greasy. At this point, I consider them better than regular chicken with the sole exception of fried chicken which was never my favorite but I can see the appeal of it.
I’ll concede that the beef substitutes have a ways to go (I like them and they’re not bad but they’re not fooling anyone, either) but they’re not the subject of this opinion.
Aren’t the sodium levels really high with that stuff? I’m not trying to dismiss all the benefits of getting away from meat but you can’t ignore that a lot of that is ultr-processed.
A little bit high, yeah, but you don’t usually need to salt or season it in most cases. Not to mention regular chicken often gets heavily salted, so in my mind it’s more or less the same in the end.