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.
Shamefully i referred to myself as basically fitting the label “meatlover” before going vegan. I feel like if i did it, everyone can. Sure cheese replacement does not taste as cow cheese and deaths still occour but those deaths aren’t the product and if I wanted more such deaths I’d just eat tons of meat as they need to be fed and grow using a substansial amount of food.
The less animal products the better but you are able to make a choice not to voluntarily exploit them. Also while im not sure if you are implying that you want to wait until lab grown meat is available to the end consumer. If you do thats kind of saying “I will only make such choice if there is basically no effort in doing so” to me.
I actually feel like a hypocrite. While I am eating a lot less meat these days, It’s more due to economics than morality, I’m ashamed to say.