Food

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Vegans are obsessed with food. It remains for all of us the common issue regardless our motivations for veganism.

What do vegans eat? What sould vegans avoid? Why? How to replace a non-vegan ingredient with a vegan one? This is a space for the answers to such questions.


Main ingredients (new overview)


The articles below may contain animal products (not vegan per se). Please check the declaration and/or nutrition facts label or see: List of food labeling regulations.

Main ingredients

Beans, chickpeas, Lentils, Cereals, Seeds, Backflow, Almonds

Spice, Herbs, Condiments, Salt, Sugar

Animal product replacers, Milk, Eggs, Butter, Meat, Cheese, Honey

Soy

Soy, myth and reality, Fermented soy, Soy sauce, Miso, Tempeh, Non fermented soy, Soy Milk, Tofu, Textured soy, Soy sprouts

Basics

Bread, Pastry

Sprouts : Soy sprouts, Mungbeans, Seeds

Probiotic food : Lactofermentation, Kéfir, Kombucha, Soy sauce, Miso, Pickles

Sauces : Mayonnaise, Béchamel,

Dehydrated food,


Nutritional facts

Raw Food

Raw Food at its most basic is simply food in its natural state. There is a huge popular movement around raw food which emphasizes a gourmet approach. Within this movement there is an attempt to use food processing of various kinds from blending to dehydrating to create dishes that resemble old cooked favorites and to create completely new raw food recipes. There are also raw food vegans who favor a less mechanized approach and try to keep foods as close to the state they would be eaten in the wild as possible. With any processing there is some loss of nutrients and it can be argued that blending, juicing or other popular ways of processing raw foods diminishes their nutritional value. However the transition from conventional eating to a raw food diet can be difficult due to cultural, economical or accessibility issues. Raw food processing may be a good transitional tool for those moving in a raw food direction. And it can be argued that the nutrient degradation caused by raw food processing is minimal when compared with the cooking of foods. It is worth noting that some of the most popular raw food recipes are extremely high in fat. There are negative consequence of a high fat diet whether the fats are from plants or animals and unfortunately many who run into problems on a high fat raw vegan diet end up devolving back to an animal product based diet without realizing they simply needed to get the fat under control. Raw and cooked food vegans can work together at the table of promoting health, animal rights and environmental issues.

Macrobiotic Food

A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics), is a dietary regimen which involves eating grains (primarily brown rice) as a staple food, supplemented with other foods such as local vegetables, and avoiding the use of highly processed or refined foods and most animal products. Macrobiotics also addresses manner of eating, by recommending against overeating, and for chewing thoroughly.

Tools

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See also

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