Technique: Vegan [edit]

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Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that seeks to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Vegans endeavor not to use or consume animal products of any kind. The most common reasons for becoming a vegan are ethical commitment or moral conviction concerning animal rights, the environment, human health, and spiritual or religious concerns. Of particular concern to many vegans are the practices involved in factory farming and animal testing, and the intensive use of land and other resources for animal farming. Vegan diets (sometimes called strict or pure vegetarian diets) are a subset of vegetarian diets. Properly planned vegan diets are healthful and have been found to satisfy nutritional needs. Poorly planned vegan diets can be low in levels of calcium, iodine, vitamin B and vitamin D. Vegans are therefore encouraged to plan their diet and take dietary supplements as appropriate. Various polls have reported vegans to be between 0.2% and 1.3% of the U.S. population, and between 0.25% and 0.4% of the UK population.

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4 months ago

Healthy. Happy. Life.

eggs are more an animal protein. Animal fats are usually the actual fat on an animal-bacon fat, beef fat, chicken skin...

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Helen Pitlick

Yes.

9 months, 1 week ago

Anonymous

Stupid question, but here goes, are eggs classed as animal fats

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[edit] About Vegan

Vegan cooking is characterized by the absence of all animal products, including muscle (meat), organs, glandular secretions (milk, cheese, yogurt), unfertilized embryonic cells (eggs), body fat, and bone/hoof tissue (gelatin) and, in many cases, honey. In vegan cooking, meat is commonly replaced by bean curd (tofu), fermented bean curd (tempeh), wheat protein (seitan), or textured vegetable protein (TVP); milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream are replaced by soy, almond, rice, oat, hemp, or coconut milk versions; eggs are replaced with starch and baking powder, tofu, or flaxseeds; and bone/hoof material is replaced with starch or fruit pectin. Each replacement strategy requires some research and tinkering, typically; for example, replacing eggs with potato starch may require an increase in the amount of baking powder used, and while animal fat tends to be solid at room temperature, most vegetable fats tend to be liquid at room temperature, making coconut or palm "oil" a better substitute for animal fat than corn oil in many baked products.