Your 2020 resolution? The Vegan Diet

Apart from earning your professional stint, what do you hear about in case of a healthy living? It’s a vegan lifestyle undoubtedly!

With more people going vegan for ethical, environmental or health reasons, vegan diet has earned seamless popularity whose benefits range from owning a trimmer waistline with improved blood sugar checks. Nevertheless, being based exclusively on plant foods such food habit might increase the risk of nutrient deficiencies on the contrary.

What does it mean?

Devoid of all animal products, including meat, eggs and dairy, veganism attempts to exclude all forms of animal exploitation and cruelty, whether for food, clothing or any other purpose.

Types of Vegan Diets

The most common practices include:

• Whole-food vegan diet: Sourced from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds

• Raw-food vegan diet: Based on raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds or plant foods, cooked at temperatures below 118°F

• 80/10/10: It limits fat-rich plants like nuts, avocados relying mainly on raw fruits and soft greens, which is also referred to as the low-fat, raw-food vegan diet or fruitarian diet.

• The starch solution: A low-fat, high-carb vegan diet based on cooked starches like potatoes, rice and corn.

• Raw till 4: Raw foods are consumed until 4 p.m. with cooked plant-based meal for dinner.

• The thrive diet: Restricts to eat plant-based whole foods that are raw or minimally cooked at lower temperatures.

• Junk-food vegan diet: Lacks whole plant foods and relies heavily on mock meats, cheeses, fries, vegan desserts etc.

Are Oreos Vegan?

Now that you can’t abstain from crunchy delicacies, you must be doubtful about the ingredients mentioned in the label of purchased Oreos that hardly lists any dairy product!

However that's not entirely accurate.

According to the Oreo FAQ page, "Oreos have milk as cross-contact and therefore are not suitable for vegans", implying small amounts of milk may have come into contact with the cookies or the equipment used to prepare them.

The next common savoury popping up in your thoughts must be cheese! Hence, have a look at Vegan cheese.

Types and Benefits of Vegan cheese

Belonging from the family of non-dairy or plant-based cheeses and cheese analogues, vegan cheeses range from soft fresh cheeses to aged and cultured hard grateable cheeses like plant-based Parmesan that can be made from a large number of different plant proteins, fats. As with plant milk, it can be sourced from seeds, such as sesame and sunflower; nuts- cashew, pine nut, and almond; and soybeans, peanuts, coconut oil, nutritional yeast, tapioca, rice among other ingredients.

Vegan cheese also comes cholesterol-free. So, never fall apart from giving a vegan bet!

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