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.

  • DarthFrodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    In that regard farming is a bit similar to road traffic. Some animals, even humans, will inevitably die in road traffic, and our civilization is dependent on it so there’s no way around it really. But that doesn’t mean it’s fine to just run them over on purpose.

    Farming is flawed and will always negatively affect nature and animals. But putting animals on cramped factory farms is worse, for both the animals and the environment. It also requires even more farming since farm animals eat tons of feed before they’re slaughtered and all that has to be grown too.

    Wouldn’t you agree that endeavoring to do less harm (eating cloned meat, eating vegan once or twice a week, eating less meat) is better than nothing?

    Yes, absolutely. I’m excited for cloned meat because it will make it easier for people to drop the factory farmed stuff.

    I’ll probably stick to the pea/soy protein based meat alternatives as they are similar enough by now for many categories, but for those who want “real” meat without the suffering, it will be great. I just hope they can make it cheap enough to have a large impact.