A Great Collection of Vegan Recipes and More
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Thai food has such a unique blend of flavors. I make this and variations of it at least once a week. It’s a lot easier than you may think and is of course completely vegan. Let me know what you think.
Pad Thai Noodles
INGREDIENTS
140 g / 5 oz rice ribbon noodles Groundnut oil for frying 140 g / [...]
Have you always had a weakness for cheesecake, but are afraid you’d have to say goodbye to it forever?Lucky for us here are plenty of amazing vegan cheesecake recipes that give is what we’re craving. This recipe in particular is quite nice and I make it more often than I should.
Deli Style Vegan Cheesecake
INGREDIENTS 1 1/4 [...]
This is a delicious and low fat vegan recipe with a taste of the middle east. The original recipe calls for chicken, but luckily there are plenty of quality substitutions available that are vegan. Make sure the margarine you are using is vegan as well.
Vegan Istanbul Pilaf
INGREDIENTS 3 T margarine 1 cup soy chicken substitute 1 1/2 cup [...]
Question:
about 1 year ago
If you’re Canadian, all sugar made by Red Path is vegan.
about 1 year ago
Barley malt, brown rice syrup, maple syrup–all organic of course.
about 1 year ago
If you live near a health food chain store, such as Whole Foods or EarthFare, they have sugar that is specifically labeled as vegan sugar to make it easier for you.
about 1 year ago
If you are in Canada, visit the Rogers Sugar website and do a search for vegan sugar – they will tell you exactly which refineries are vegan and what brands to look for
about 1 year ago
Florida Crystals are a vegan sugar.
In teas and in place of honey, you can use agave nectar.
And if you are vegan and worried about this, some vegans make the choice to eat sugar, others don’t. Either way. :]
about 1 year ago
I use a natural cane juice extract, dired from an evaporation of boil cane juice, not processing all natural, like the lttle packets of “Sugar in the Raw” at Starbucks, it is not processed either.
Agave extract is a good one to, neither it or the CE are filtered in or through bone char, it is like the myth that they use fish bladders for filtering beer, I have been through several brewery and they use paper and cloth filters for the final clarification of the beer, some chill it to 35 degrees and the ice crystal help eleminate the impuritys.
about 1 year ago
The sugar doesn’t actually have bones in it, but bone char is sometimes used in the refining of sugar. You can get evaporated cane juice, turbinado (raw) sugar, or beet sugar (which is never processed through bone char). For liquid sweeteners, you can get agave nectar, which has the same sweetness as honey, but is slightly thinner. It also has a low glycemic index. Brown rice syrup is another good sub. It isn’t as sweet, but it’s very thick.
However, I wouldn’t sub liquid sweeteners for solid in a recipe, as it requires making adjustments to other liquid ingredients and can be problematic. Agave nectar is good in hot tea, I must say.
I also am not a fan of Stevia–it has a nasty aftertaste reminiscent of all the other nasty artificial sweeteners out there. And since a little goes a long way, you’d also have to find a way to adjust how much you use.
Get the evaporated cane juice or turbinado. Many grocery stores have Sugar in the Raw, and you can get other kinds at a natural foods store.
about 1 year ago
if you’re cutting out things you NEED from your diet, it isn’t healthy. sugar comes from sugar cane, not animals. stop whining and just eat it.
about 1 year ago
Don’t be daft or insulting. Most sugar is whitened with the use of charcoal that is created from the bones of animals, hence here on a vegan recipe site, it makes since. The sugars you need can be derived from fruits and such. Those are much healthier for you then the refined types.
Also, Splenda was tested on animals. Brown rice syrup, as well as the aforementioned agave are better for you and don’t raise your blood sugar too much.
about 1 year ago
Animal bones were historically used to whiten raw cane sugar.
In the 19th Century, scientists realized that the decolorizing capability of bone charcoal was much greater than wood char. The sugar refining industry was quick to substitute bone char for wood char.
Today sugar is decolorized with “granular activated carbon”, which is made by processing mineral carbon.
“Bone char”, also known as bone black or animal charcoal, is a granular black material produced by calcinating animal bones: the bones are heated to high temperatures in the absence of air to drive off volatile substances. It consists mainly of calcium phosphate and a small amount of carbon. Bone char has a very high surface area and a high absorptive capacity for lead, mercury, and arsenic.
Bone char is often used in the sugar refining industry for decolorizing (a process patented by Louis Constant in 1812). This leads to worries from vegans and even vegetarians, since about a quarter of the sugar in the US is processed using bone char as a filter (about half of all sugar from sugar cane is processed with bone char, the rest with activated carbon).
As bone char does not get into the sugar, sugar processed this way is considered parve/Kosher. Vegans are of varying opinions over whether such sugar can be considered truly vegan.
about 1 year ago
Yea I heard that sugar was bleached using cow bones and stuff. I think an example of vegan friendly sugar would be, Agate honey? But that’s honey, I know. But I think they make it into crystal cubes. Anyways, that popular RAW sugar isn’t processed.
about 1 year ago
splenda.
about 1 year ago
I learned something new researching your question. I was unaware that sugar was filtered through bone char. I am not vegan so it doesn’t really bother me. The process though is considered kosher because it’s not adding animal products.
Here is what I found:
Over half of the cane refineries in the United States use bone char (charcoal made from animal bones) as their activated carbon source. The bone char used in this filtering process is so far removed from its animal source that cane sugar processed in this method is deemed kosher pareve, which, according to Jewish dietary laws, means that it contains no meat or milk in any form as an ingredient. A number of vegans disagree with this perspective.
Some vegans replace white table sugar with unbleached cane sugar or dehydrated and granulated cane juice, both of which are available in natural food stores. Most of these products can replace white sugar measure for measure for general use (such as on cereal or in beverages) and in recipes. These products are typically darker in color than white table sugar — ranging from light amber to rich brown — due to their naturally higher molasses content. This can sometimes alter the flavor of recipes and may also affect the color of the finished product.
So, try going to a natural foods store. They should carry sugar that is not processed using bone char. Hope this helps.
about 1 year ago
Florida Crystals.
about 1 year ago
Captdave’s rant had to be moved to our new ‘rants’ category and he has been placed under mouse arrest by YA. Also; King Vegan has just invoked a fatwa on the Capt. so he has had to go into hiding for awhile.
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about 1 year ago
Look for organic sugars that state specifically that they are processed with vegetable-derived ingredients.