Questions tagged [dairy-substitutes]
About plant-based substitutes for dairy products (such as milk, butter, cheese, cream and yogurt). Alternatives to these products are often made from soya, almonds, cashews, coconut, rice, oats, hemp seeds, or other nuts and grains. Dairy substitutes may have vitamins and minerals added.This tag applies when you need to replace a dairy-based food or ingredient or want information about a dairy substitute product.
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What is a make at home alternative for mocha mix dairy free ice cream?
What is a make at home alternative for mocha mix dairy free ice cream?
In the 1990s, there existed a dairy free ice-cream known as "mocha mix".
Mocha mix had no mocha in it, and was not ...
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Best environmentally friendly dairy free milk?
There are so many dairy-free milk options out there, but it is hard to determine if some are actually more detrimental to the environment (almond milk, for example has a high sustainability rating on ...
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What do you use instead of butter (on pancakes)?
I just recently started a vegan diet about a month ago.
I've been enjoying several vegan pancake recipes, but I'm not sure what to use instead of butter for the topping? I know some margarines are ...
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Calcium bioavailability in traditional tofu?
As a vegan, I intend to use tofu as my main source of protein, iron and calcium. Therefore, I am concerned about bioavailability (i.e. absorption divided by intake) of iron and calcium in tofu.
As far ...
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How is vegan butter made solid?
In the past, people switched to margarine thinking it was healthier than butter but then studies on trans fatty acids found in margarine suggested otherwise.
Given that history, I was wondering if ...
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Hand sieve vs nut milk bag for straining plant milk
I have been making non-dairy milk (mostly oat milk) for a while using a nut milk bag to strain, which has recently torn. I am looking for a replacement, and was wondering whether there is much ...
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How can I tell if this pizza is vegan?
Today the office in which I work provided pizza lunch for us, and the person ordering was extra thoughtful and ordered some additional special pizza for the few vegans who work in this office.
Upon ...
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Milk substitute for home-made glue
Home-brewers often use milk-based recipes — or literally just milk — to glue labels to bottles. Presumably it's the casein in the milk that allows this to work.
This kind of glue has the advantage ...
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Are most pizza doughs from chain restaurants vegan?
Assuming you can find a delivery place that offers vegan cheese substitutes or dairy-free flatbreads, is it safe to assume that the restaurant's dough recipe is vegan? What ingredients should you ask ...
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How do the health effects of butter and margarine compare?
I am slowly transitioning to a healthier diet and I am in a quandary about the health effects of butter and margarine. I went to buy a butter replacement and chose an olive spread. I'm in the uk.
My ...
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How can I make vegan cream cheese using potatoes?
I want to make vegan cream cheese using mashed or blender blended potatoes, but I can't find a recipe for it.
How can I achieve this?
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How do I make oat milk?
How do I make oat milk? I have oats and a blender, but what else do I need? I'd rather buy bulk oats rather than buying a packaged product.
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Experimenting with vegan cheese fermentation using real cheese crust: Is there a health risk?
I am doing my first experiments with vegan cheese, prepared by myself. In 2 out of the 3 tests I'm trying to use bacteria from a real cheese.
It's a French cheese, but an industrial one, whose taste ...
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How can I make thick and creamy vegan curd or yogurt?
How can I make a thick and creamy vegan curd or yogurt at home?
Here in South India the temperature is very suitable for fast fermentation, but I am not sure which ingredients or fermenting agents to ...
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Is boiling oil seeds and oleaginous fruit as effective as soaking them overnight in cold water?
Those seeds are the base for vegan cheese preparation.
In the process of experimenting with making my own vegan cheese, I am wondering whether soaking is equivalent to boiling in this context, since ...
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Why is vegan cheese rarely made using traditional methods?
Usually vegan cheese is just some saturated oil with modified starch, food colouring, aroma and a few other ingredients. However Happy Cheeze is one manufacturer that claims to stick to traditional ...
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Anyone know why Costco / Target pulled 'Just Mayo'?
I was so happy to buy 'Just Mayo' at Costco but it doesn't appear to be there anymore.
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Make a vegan classic poutine
I am a huge fan of poutine. Since poutine isn't very vegan, but I love it, it stops me from being a vegan. So, to fix that, is there an easy vegan-friendly poutine recipe? I would try searching from ...
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What vegan food or drink helps to cool off after spicy food?
When people eat something that's too spicy and they want to relieve the heat, one thing that's common to drink is full-fat milk or cream. What would be a good dairy-free, vegan alternative food or ...
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Vegan cheesecake?
Can a cheesecake be vegan?
This is mostly curiousness on my part though if a cheesecake can be made commercially sugar-free why can’t it be made vegan commercially?
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What can replace milk, for vegan pancakes without eggs?
Please see the question in the title. My goal is to make vegan pancakes without:
eggs,
milk,
any milk alternative that uses Natural Flavours, like soy or coconut milk.
I live in Ontario, Canada and ...
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Which plant-based milks have the highest protein content?
I normally buy soy milk because I prefer the taste and consistency, and also because it's a good source of protein. But I noticed that some other non-dairy milks such as coconut milk seem to have very ...
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Which Canadian pizza chain restaurants offer dairy-free cheese?
I know that Panago has been offering Daiya cheese on Pizza since 2015 but I don't know of any other pizza chain restaurants offering dairy-free cheese in Canada. Is Panago the only one?
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Why does dairy-free ice cream get so hard?
The first time I tried storebought dairy-free ice cream I could barely even wedge a scoop into it after taking it out of the freezer because it was so hard. I had never had that problem in the past ...
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How can I make rice mylk/milk that tastes sweet without adding sugars/sweeteners of any kind?
This follows on from my question Is it safe to make mylk/milk from rice? which I realise was trying to ask two questions (if not three...)
I notice that the rice mylk I buy has a wonderful sweet ...
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What's the difference between lactose-free and dairy-free?
Various products in the supermarket, such as skim milk, whole milk, ice cream, butter, and whipping cream are labelled as "lactose-free". Are these products appropriate to serve to a vegan? What is ...
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Is it safe to make mylk/milk from rice?
I live in the UK. At some point, I was taught that cooked rice that has been left for a while can cause illness.
More recently I've become aware that many people make healthy fermented dishes from ...
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Vegan egg nog for the holidays?
With the holidays coming up this question seems relevant, so here it goes, would it be possible to make a vegan egg nog?
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What can I swap for cream that's still "creamy"?
I have a lot of recipes that call for heavy cream, half-and-half, or milk. I'd really like to ditch the dairy -- but while I can swap soy, almond, or something else for plain milk, I have a much ...
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What are well known smoked cheese alternatives?
What alternatives are well known or can be purchased in local supermarkets which taste most similar to smoked cheese?
Note:
I'm living in the UK and shop weekly so I'm looking for alternatives I ...
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How can I make vegan ice cream myself without expensive equipment?
I really love vegan ice cream, and I would love to learn how to make it myself. I know the banana trick*, but I want something richer. The ice creams I buy are coconut, cashew or rice based. I have ...
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Why is vegan cheese nicknamed Gary?
I have a friend who is a vegan and for some reason she, and many other people, seem to call Vegan cheese Gary.
Why is vegan cheese nicknamed Gary though? Where did this come from?
I am from the UK ...
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Are there any vegan chocolate spreads which taste like Nutella available in the UK?
I am looking for a vegan chocolate spread that tastes similiarly to Nutella which would be available in the UK. I am open to some differences in taste, but I would ideally want something with ...
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How can I approximate the flavour of butter in savoury dishes?
I used to make dishes like risotto, for example, with dairy butter.
Is there a vegan way to approximate that rich flavour?
It would be awesome if I could do this with simple ingredients rather than ...
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Can prebiotics substitute for consumption of probiotics in vegan diet?
Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that promote growth of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines. They can be found for example in legumes and oats.
As a vegan who does not eat ...
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Are probiotics added to soy milk of vegan origin?
I have been looking for probiotics in vegan foods and I have found couple of references (1, 2) saying that although soy milk contains some probiotics naturally, these are added to it as well.
I ...
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Why do vegans call milk "mylk"?
I saw that vegans often use the word mylk instead of milk, like in this answer.
Why do vegans call milk mylk?
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Which sort of soy milk makers automate the most steps?
Making soymilk (or nut milk) by hand calls for lots of blending, cooking and straining.
Which machines or machine categories automate most of the steps? Are there non-industrial (i.e. consumer market)...
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How can I get the same rise in baked goods when I replace cow milk with almond milk?
We're attempting to reduce dairy consumption in many of our staple foods. Almond milk has worked very nicely for some things, but in baked goods I'm often failing. If a recipe involves baking soda or ...
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How does the cost of production of soya milk compare to cow's milk?
Raising a large animal seems, at first glance, like a much less efficient way to produce some kind of 'milk' than merely growing plants and processing them with machines. Yet somehow, where I live at ...
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Is there a vegan cheese I can use for pizzas?
This weekend, I'm inviting friends at home to play online together. As every time they come, we have pizzas. But this time, I would like to prepare vegan pizzas for them.
I'm therefore wondering if ...
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What can substitute for cow's milk in a vegan breakfast?
Every morning, I generally eat cereal with milk
As I'm going vegan, I replaced the milk with organic soy drink with vanilla (that I greatly prefer to milk).
But I wonder if it is a good substitute ...
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Are there vegan formula options for infants?
If I am unable to breastfeed and I want to avoid dairy-based products, what are my options for formula?
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How can I make a pleasant vegan latte? Soy milk often curdles in heat
I love coffee, but I find that usually when I pour soy milk into my coffee, it separates or curdles in some way and becomes utterly vile.
Do any other non-dairy milks or specific soy brands produce ...
