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.



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
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.
never heard of anyone not eating mushrooms
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
Sure, but other than this one guy, it’s not a thing.
So almost pointless bringing individuals foibles into this conversation.
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