Petes Tofu2Go Flavored Dessert Tofu

By: Tanya Taylor, PhD | Sep 19, 2006

I don't normally associate tofu with dessert, but since I am adventrous in my food choices, I thought I would give Pete's Tofu2Go's a try. Tofu is soy milk to which a solidifier has been added. You press out the liquid whey and form the solid curds into cakes aka tofu. Pete decided to make a dessert of tofu by having a more gel like and flavored product. I tried 'Very Berry' because that I was trying to play it a bit safe with the flavor - it's pretty hard to mess up the tried and true "berry" flavoring.

The product itself is a failure from a taste and a food science standpoint. I would best describe tofu2go as a jello wannabe that is mushy in texture and bland in taste. The gel is very weak but I suppose that's why they call it "flan like." But it seems more like "oops - we couldn't get the proper texture that we wanted, so lets call it flan." And please, people at Pete's, flan is not just a weak gel. It is a 'delicate' gel. It still holds together when you scoop it out, and not until you put it in your mouth does it dissolve. Your Pete's Tofu2Go turned to mush just by scooping it out.

What really hurt my food science heart was the fact that you can see the product "weeping water" which is called syneresis. This is the sign of a weak, inferior gel. One of my foodie pet peeves is companies that send products to the market knowing that they have issues - which in my mind says that the company thinks that we food consumers are so uninteligent that we will buy anything that has a marketing gimmick. Shame on you Pete's! For amazing pictures of the whole entire wrapping process, and for an idea of what a "gel gone wrong" looks like, check out the review at All this Chittah Chattah [link].

The Pete's tofu2go package comes with 2 servings (and you do get a lot). One serving is 100 calories, 4% of the recommended daily amount of total fat (2.5 grams) and saturated fat (0.5 grams), no trans fat, 5 grams of protein and 15 grams total carbohydrate which includes 1 gram of fiber and 13 grams of sugars.

VeggieBoards has a few people discussing the Tofu2Go and some actually liked it - go figure [link]. I certainly will never buy this again.

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