@RusA For making vegan cheese at home, most recipes use some combination of tofu and almond butter, with seasonings like nutritional yeast and lemon juice. Here's an overview from Martha Stewart.
Commercial vegan cheese is usually some combination of soy products, oils, thickeners, and flavorings. A typical one from Whole Foods is made from: Water, vegetable oil, tofu, soy protein, carrageenan (gelatin made from seaweed), maltodextrin, apple cider vinegar, corn starch, calcium phosphate, potato flakes, sea salt, guar gum, potassium phosphate, non-dairy lactic acid, adipic acid, soy lecithin, natural colors. Sounds like a typical recipe for that artificial stuff you can buy in the supermarket that has to be labeled "cheese food" because it actually contains very little cheese.
I might try some of these out of curiosity, but rather than trying to have an artificial "plant-based" product that "tastes like the real thing", I'd rather have the all-natural real thing that's just made from milk, rennet, flavorings, and maybe a little cave mold for that extra je ne sais quoi .
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@RusA For making vegan cheese at home, most recipes use some combination of tofu and almond butter, with seasonings like nutritional yeast and lemon juice. Here's an overview from Martha Stewart.
Commercial vegan cheese is usually some combination of soy products, oils, thickeners, and flavorings. A typical one from Whole Foods is made from: Water, vegetable oil, tofu, soy protein, carrageenan (gelatin made from seaweed), maltodextrin, apple cider vinegar, corn starch, calcium phosphate, potato flakes, sea salt, guar gum, potassium phosphate, non-dairy lactic acid, adipic acid, soy lecithin, natural colors. Sounds like a typical recipe for that artificial stuff you can buy in the supermarket that has to be labeled "cheese food" because it actually contains very little cheese.
I might try some of these out of curiosity, but rather than trying to have an artificial "plant-based" product that "tastes like the real thing", I'd rather have the all-natural real thing that's just made from milk, rennet, flavorings, and maybe a little cave mold for that extra je ne sais quoi .