Vegan Ultra processed food... again

[PK99]

Came across a recipe for Vegan Cheesecake today
Ingredients include...

Flora Vegan whipping cream
Ingredients:
Lentil Protein Preparation (water, 1.1% Lentil Protein), Palm Fat, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Modified Corn Starch, Emulsifiers (sunflower Lecithin, Sugar Esters Of Fatty Acids, Mono-and Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids), Stabilisers (guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum), Natural Flavours, Salt, Colourant (beta-carotene).

Violife Cream cheese
Water, Coconut Oil (23%), Starch, Sea Salt, Acidity Regulator: Glucono-Delta-Lactone, Flavourings, Olive Extract, Vitamin B12.

errrm... no thanks!

 

[Dirk]

Sounds healthy......

 

[presta]

The problem with all this is people trying to make plants taste like animals instead of eating plants that taste like plants.

 

[MontyVeda]

The problem with all this is people trying to make plants taste like animals instead of eating plants that taste like plants.

not sure what animal a cheese cake is supposed to taste like

 

[presta]

not sure what animal a cheese cake is supposed to taste like

Doesn't cream come from an animal? If not, why are vegans trying to concoct an alternative to it?

 

[alicat]

Nothing that can't be made in a home kitchen should be allowed to be called food.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Came across a recipe for Vegan Cheesecake today
Ingredients include...

Flora Vegan whipping cream
Ingredients:
Lentil Protein Preparation (water, 1.1% Lentil Protein), Palm Fat, Rapeseed Oil, Sugar, Modified Corn Starch, Emulsifiers (sunflower Lecithin, Sugar Esters Of Fatty Acids, Mono-and Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids), Stabilisers (guar Gum, Locust Bean Gum), Natural Flavours, Salt, Colourant (beta-carotene).

Violife Cream cheese
Water, Coconut Oil (23%), Starch, Sea Salt, Acidity Regulator: Glucono-Delta-Lactone, Flavourings, Olive Extract, Vitamin B12.

errrm... no thanks!

There are various vegan cheese recipes on line, mainly from cashew nuts.
I can't comment on the taste as I have never tried to make vegan cheese, but it doesn't seem overly taxing.
To make vegan cream, whip up a tin of coconut milk, add icing sugar to taste.
You can also make vegan cream out of the chick peas water from a tin.
There is an added ingredient that I can't remember, maybe cream of tartar?
Easy enough to Google.

 

[DRHysted]

As I said to a farmer friend, “don’t knock the vegans, if it wasn’t for them my diet would be very limited.”

 

[AndyRM]

Yeah, because there's nothing massively processed in an omni diet...

A vegan diet being somehow difficult to manage, expensive or unhealthy is a total myth.

Check out the Thug Kitchen recipe book for some proper advice.

 

[Punkawallah]

I await with interest the recipes to make meat taste like plants.

 

[AndyRM]

I await with interest the recipes to make meat taste like plants.

Why would anyone do that? It's not particularly difficult, but I'm not sure why you'd bother.

 

[PK99]

Yeah, because there's nothing massively processed in an omni diet...

A vegan diet being somehow difficult to manage, expensive or unhealthy is a total myth.

Check out the Thug Kitchen recipe book for some proper advice.

A significant proportion of our meals qualify as Vegan.
Dahl, Roasted Cauli and chickpeas, tahini/siracha sauce let down with coconut milk are staples. But nothing in our diet is multiprocessed... apart from HBB and TommyK.

My OP was prompted by a recipe on Great British Chefs, such multi processed confections seem to me the very antithesis of Vegan principles - be they based on health or environmental principles.

 

[AndyRM]

A significant proportion of our meals qualify as Vegan.
Dahl, Roasted Cauli and chickpeas, tahini/siracha sauce let down with coconut milk are staples. But nothing in our diet is multiprocessed... apart from HBB and TommyK.

My OP was prompted by a recipe on Great British Chefs, such multi processed confections seem to me the very antithesis of Vegan principles - be they based on health or environmental principles.

I have no idea who or what HBB or TommyK are.

I do know about Great British Chefs. Avoid.

 

[R_nger]

A significant proportion of our meals qualify as Vegan.
Dahl, Roasted Cauli and chickpeas, tahini/siracha sauce let down with coconut milk are staples. But nothing in our diet is multiprocessed... apart from HBB and TommyK.

My OP was prompted by a recipe on Great British Chefs, such multi processed confections seem to me the very antithesis of Vegan principles - be they based on health or environmental principles.

Have you considered the possibility that Vegans might choose their diet to avoid animal products ? Health and environment are not criteria exclusive to vegans. And vegan can be as unhealthy as any other diet.

 

[slowfen]

This has been happening for some time, and is noticable as companies like Cargills have jumped on the vegan bandwagon, which means that it is here to stay