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.social
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    3 months 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

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      3 months ago

      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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          3 months 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.

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            3 months 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.