American alternative meat goes to Russian grocery stores

US-based Beyond Meat’s alternative meat will be sold in 29 grocery stores from next week in Moscow in – the Russian daily Vedomosztyi announced on Friday.

The price of a two-piece burger made of 227 grams of green peas protein, beetroot and rapeseed, will be 750 rubles (almost 3,500 HUF at the current exchange rate). This means that a kilo of product costs over 3,000 rubles (about 14,000 HUF). The Azbuka Vkusza premium grocery chain expects to sell about a thousand packs of meat a week in Moscow. (Pogár Demeter, MTI)