Scientists perfect plant-based cheeses - stretch, melt, and taste like dairy
Scientists perfect plant-based cheeses - stretch, melt, and taste like dairy
Plant-based cheese has become a popular choice for those who want to cut out dairy but still enjoy the taste and texture of traditional cheese. But making cheese from plants that stretches, melts, and tastes like dairy is no easy task. It takes a lot of science, experimentation, and testing to creat...
Nice! I've been vegan for 25 years, so no longer the best judge of "just like cheese", but I'm stoked at the improvements since I vegan.
Never been vegan, but would love to see vegan alternatives that are as good (subjectively) as real cheeses. I do try to make an effort to reduce my animal-based food consumption, but cheese is really hard for me to leave behind.
It's a big sticking point for many, and I felt the same way making the transition from vegetarian to vegan. In the end, I found I didn't miss it as much as I thought I would, but that's just my experience.
I appreciate your sentiments, and your efforts to limit your consumption. I will always applaud someone who eats a vegan diet 5 or 6 days out of 7. If everyone could manage something like that, it would make a huge difference :)
Wow, really cool. Sounds like great progress for the industry. And it's Canadian >.<! Good on AOL for covering this, although they should have used the "grilled cheese pull apart" test for the headline photo (copied below).
The research study was published in Physics of Fluids: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/37/1/011913/3330660/Impact-of-protein-sources-on-the-functionality-of
Here's a popular press summary from the journal's publisher: Just as Gouda: Improving the Quality of Cheese Alternatives
Cool development and I'm sure it's good, but ain't no way it tastes like dairy cheese.
Cheese is so interesting because it's cultured, with different bacteria that make it all taste different. It's more like a living thing. Vegan cheese is the stuff of school pizzas. Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food.
Still interesting, and happy for vegans, but coconut oil and pea protein made into an ultraprocessed cheese food doesn't sound healthier than cheese.
doesn’t sound healthier than cheese
It is, for the cows.
fair, but it's not like the high saturated fat and high cholesterol levels in dairy based cheese make it really that "healthy" by comparison ... meanwhile, lots of vegans are motivated more by not supporting the poor treatment of cows or by environmental concerns, both of which are solved by vegan cheese.
Ohh wo/man I totally agree. I just can't eat the real stuff. I blow up, not just in my digestion but physically I have terrible whole body inflammation.
I like to have fake pizza once or twice a month. This will make it better (once i read the article and taste it).
There are plenty of molded/aged cheeses in higher-end vegan markets, and do-it-yourselfers.
If you think most cheeses are not purely industrial foods you're fooling yourself.
i will take exactly ONE “no thank you bite”
<3 I love vegan cheese