Angular Material: mat-select not selecting default

Question

I have a mat-select where the options are all objects defined in an array. I am trying to set the value to default to one of the options, however it is being left selected

Answer 1

I did this.

    
        
            {{ option.name }}
        
    

Normally you can do [value]="option", unless you get your options from some database?? I think either the delay of getting the data causes it not to work, or the objects gotten are different in some way even though they are the same?? Weirdly enough it's most likely the later one, as I also tried [value]="option === selected ? selected : option" and it didn't work.