Scientists find way to make healthier and ‘oozier’ vegan cheese (www.independent.co.uk)
from tyrant@lemmy.world to vegan@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 02:49
https://lemmy.world/post/45230473

Vegan cheese made from home-grown vegetable oils is healthier, greener and more “oozy”, scientists have found.

The cheese substitute is typically made from a combination of starch and solid fats like coconut or palm oil.

The fats give it the “sliceable, meltable” texture people expect from cheese – but also mean vegan cheese often ends up with a high saturated fat content.

Now a team at Heriot-Watt University (HWU) has developed a way of making vegan cheese slices from vegetable oils like rapeseed and sunflower, rather than the coconut and palm oil.

The work is as part of efforts to make the product healthier and more sustainable.

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queermunist@lemmy.ml on 06 Apr 03:11 next collapse

“It won’t taste any better or worse than the current vegan cheese slices on the market

I’ll stick to nooch then, thanks.

Smeagol666@crazypeople.online on 06 Apr 03:53 next collapse

I tried going vegan for a couple of weeks until I tried to find cheese that didn’t taste like ass. I actually liked Impossible Meat though. If they can’t make it taste better, don’t bother.

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip on 06 Apr 08:56 collapse

>I actually liked Impossible Meat though

Why “liked” past tense? Is there something stopping you from eating it now? Last I checked there’s nothing in the rules stopping non-vegans from eating vegan products.

Ephera@lemmy.ml on 06 Apr 06:35 collapse

Would be nice, if we’d find a way to actually put proteins into there. Feels quite pointless to eat vegan cheese, when it’s just starch and fat. Might as well eat some more bread at that point. Or, you know, snack some nuts…

ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 08:15 collapse

Violife have started making one with pea protein in which is decent as a general use cheese, and there are quite a few cashew based cheeses out there which tend to be more expensive deli cheeses, but also don’t feel like just eating solidified coconut oil.