Description: Half-dollar-size dark pretzels filled with soft, processed cheddar cheese and pulverized jalapeno peppers by Synder’s of Hanover

Preparation summary: Ready to eat

Highpoints: An all-around robust combo of flavors from fresh buttery tasting pretzels, sandwiching in “funny cheese” and invisible jalapenos adding a pleasing medium kick

Lowpoints: Palm oil ranks as the third ingredient, a saturated fat that clogs arteries and seems better off used for soap-making.

Average Retail Price: $3.49

Availability: Major grocery stores

Description: An 18-ounce plastic tub filled with shredded pork bathed in barbecue sauce

Preparation summary: Heat in microwave or on the stovetop, then serve on rolls or eat plain

Highpoints: Pork-pullers can give their hands a much-needed rest.

Lowpoints: Though the meat is tender, it could be pulled from zebras for all we know, as the shredded swine drowns in a big-tasting barbecue sauce riddled with too much brown sugar, molasses and white vinegar.

Average Retail Price: $5.99

Availability: Major grocery stores

Description: Two faux “chicken breasts” made of mycoprotein and rehydrated egg whites

Preparation summary: Bake at 425 degrees on a cookie sheet for 20-25 minutes (the preferred method) or microwave on high for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes per cutlet

Highpoints: For those who eat solely with their eyes, the cutlets bake up to a ravishing golden brown and appear evenly crispy.

Lowpoints: It’s fake chicken that tastes like real fish rotting in a dumpster. We’ll forfeit the fermented mushrooms known as mycoprotein for firm, meat-mimicking tofu any day.

Average Retail Price: $5.99

Availability: Specialty and most major grocery stores

Description: White bean hummus with canola oil, basil, tahini, red bell pepper and parsley

Preparation summary: Ready to eat

Highpoints: Rich and zesty with muscular bursts of basil. This could be the greatest hummus the world has ever seen.

Lowpoints: None

Average Retail Price: $3.99

Availability: Trader Joe’s