The Veggie Whopper Cheese is $13.30 and 2,277 kJ. The patty is made from corn, capsicum and carrot, which makes it a genuine vegetable patty rather than a plant based meat substitute, and that distinction changes everything about how it eats.
A plant based patty is engineered to imitate beef. A vegetable patty is not trying to. What you get here is sweetness from the corn and carrot, a little bite from the capsicum, and a soft rather than meaty texture. It tastes like what it is, and the people who prefer it prefer it for exactly that reason.
The build is the standard Whopper dressing: cheese, ketchup, onions, tomato, lettuce and mayonnaise on a toasted sesame seed bun. Against a sweet vegetable patty the pickles and raw onion matter more than they do against beef, because there is nothing savoury underneath to balance them out on its own.
The numbers set it apart from the plant based options. Protein is 17.6g, well below the Plant Based Whopper Cheese at 29.6g, while carbs are 61.9g, the highest in the vegetarian range. That is what a vegetable patty looks like on a nutrition panel. At 2,277 kJ it is the lightest of the veggie burgers.
Who it suits: long time vegetarians who have never wanted a beef substitute, and anyone who finds plant based patties too close to the real thing. It is also the milder option, since there is no strong seasoning in the patty.
Pair it with Small Thick Cut Chips at $2.00, or try the Angry Veggie Whopper Cheese at $12.95 for a version with heat.
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