Scientists find way to make a healthier and ‘oozier’ version of vegan cheese
www.independent.co.uk
The team achieved the feat using a process called oleogelation

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.

  • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
    44·
    1 month ago

    Lab grown meat / cloned cells are still initially extracted from animals. There is inherent exploitation and/or harm done to the animals.

    This is such an extreme view that I usually hear from persons not eating mushrooms either because it’s some sort of sentient life.

    Level 5 vegans, not eating anything that casts a shadow

    • umbra@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      30 days ago

      I have already excluded animal exploitation by not eating meat. Why would i reintroduce animal exploitation by consuming such a product?

      It’s really not that extreme. And in my comment, the part you didn’t quote, i acknowledged some vegans may think the trade off is worth it, but i do not.

      But thanks for the disingenuous mushroom nonsense. I love it when meat eaters come into a vegan space to insult me

      • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        30 days ago

        That’s my point with why it is an extreme point of view, taking a cell from an animal would hardly anyone call exploitation. The ones I hear argue in that way are those who don’t eat mushrooms because of aforementioned reason, and I guess not yeast either. I mean really?

        I left that out yes, because it’s irrelevant? Glad you love when meat eaters come into a vegan space to insult you. Weird thing to say and I’m unsure what it has to do with anything.

          • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
            11·
            30 days ago

            I’ve met several, albeit all but one had an allergy 😄 the one didn’t eat mushrooms because he perceived them as a sentient lifeform

            • davepleasebehave@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              29 days ago

              Sure, but other than this one guy, it’s not a thing.

              So almost pointless bringing individuals foibles into this conversation.

                • davepleasebehave@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  21 days ago

                  you are acting like there is a large subset of vegans who don’t eat mushrooms because of their sentience.

                  I’m saying that this is not a significant thing.

                  • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
                    1·
                    21 days ago

                    No, I’m saying that taking cells from an animal and equaling that to exploitation is an extreme view of husbandry, in line with not eating mushrooms because they’re perceived as sentient.