Virat Kohli’s vegetarian chicken controversy explained

A few years back, former India skipper Virat Kohli left the non-vegetarian food due to health reasons. However, recently, he uploaded an Instagram story about vegetarian chicken which left the fans guessing. Apparently, there is a concept of mock chicken as mentioned by the person in question as well. It looks like chicken but it is a vegetarian food made of soy.

Some people on Twitter really don’t understand the difference between Chicken tikka and Mock chicken tikka (a kinda plant food)
and started controversy against Virat Kohli for eating non veg. 🤣😭 pic.twitter.com/rplyX4QPmq

— Akshat (@AkshatOM10) December 12, 2023

Left eating meat due to too much uric acid: Virat Kohli

In a different interview a few years back, the right-hander revealed that the reason he left non-veg was due to uric acid. He said that because of this, he had cervical spine issue.

“Left eating meat just before the England Test series. In 2018, when we went to South Africa, I had a cervical spine issue while playing a test match. It compressed a nerve that was running straight to the little finger of my right hand. It gave me a tingling sensation and I could barely feel my little finger. I could not sleep at night and it was hurting like mad,” Kohli said in the Instagram Live session back in 2020.

“Then I got my tests done and my stomach was too acidic and my body was too acidic, creating too much uric acid. Even though I was taking calcium and magnesium, everything but one tablet was not sufficient for my body to function properly. So, my stomach started pulling calcium from my bones and my bones got weaker. That is why I stopped eating meat completely in the middle of England tour to cut down the uric acid and I have never felt better in my life, to be honest,” he added.