Traditional cultural foods veganized and Traditional Foods Whole Plant-Based Life Styled
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Plant-Based Oatmeal Cookie Recipes
Jane Esselstyn's "Plant-Based Oatmeal Raisin Chocolate Chip Cookies" Jane Esselstyn states this recipe is not "plant perfect" because it has a nut butter in the ingredients but it's a plant strong recipe. Ann stated, she does not make these, her daughter does. Ann helps her daughter on her cooking show and Ann does taste the cookies on the show. So even though it's made by Dr. Esselstyn's daughter it doesn't mean he and his wife makes them or eats them. YouTube Link
Jane Esselstyn's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies without nut butter this recipe has ground up walnut in it and maple syrup. This recipe I recently tried and it is just yummy. Maple syrup is plant-based like cane sugar but unlike cane sugar maple syrup isn't as inflammatory to the endothelial. Coconut flour is is popular because of its fiber but it's high in saturated fat, these recipes contain rolled oats, oat are rich in soluble fiber. I haven't tried to other two cookie recipes yet. Both of Jane Esselstyn's recipes mentioned are leavening free. YouTube Link
Nut Free Oil Free Crunching Cookie 🍪 I made the above recipe without nuts it makes great bars that can also become oil free granola. Instead of walnuts I put some organic rolled oats in the blender with the organic maple syrup, I grated some organic nutmeg seed and added organic vanilla flavor then I added some more organic rolled oats plused them into the first mixture so they aren't turned into flour, I did a course pluse. (Optional you can add sugar free cranberries infused with organic apple juice). I spread out the cookie dough on a baking sheet and sliced it into retangles and baked it at 350° for 15 to 20 minutes. For granola you can skip slicing it before you bake it of just crumble a rectangle cookie into a bowl with plant milk. Yum!
I did make a batch with Organic Solo pea protein powder. It came out good also.
Lower Blood Sugar Spike
I think tortilla chips made with course ground organic rolled oats and oat flour, oil free would be tasty also. It will be fun to try something like this because of the blood sugar spike that happens when we eat cornmeal products according to some of the people doing blood sugar test and posting results. Its important to pay attention to because 1 out of 3 people is pre-diabetic and only 1 out 10 people know it. I'm sure there's less of a glucose spike when the corn tortilla is eaten with a protein. 🙂
"4 Easy Healthy Vegan Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies l Gluten-Free, Oil-Free, Refined" sugar. This also a Plant strong recipe, it has a nut butter in the ingredients. Link
"Key Lime Pie - No oil No Refined Sugar" This is a "Plant Perfect Recipe" I did try this recipe also but I made it into a sweet potatoe pie with no lime. I just used orange sweet potatoes and nutmeg, it came out great. link
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Brands
Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) Products with no added oils or refined sugars.
WFPB Plantstrong is a Oil free, no refined sugar, no excess sodium brand. It's owned by Rip Esselstyn. Some of their foods do contain added calcium, they add it in their plant milks and in leavening in their pancake waffle mix for those folks who don't want added calcium thats something to keep in mind and read the ingredients before you order. They have many products without added calcium. The sodium is high for some folks but its lower than many other commercial vegan and WFPB products. Link
Vegan: The Mendocino Bakery Offers something Vegan you can enjoy order and have it shipped to you. Mendocino Bakery makes vegan oatmeal cookies and vegan chocolate chip cookies. "Our oatmeal raisin cookies are soft and moist. They are also gluten-free, vegan, corn-free and soy-free ..." Their vegan oatmeal cookies don't have oil, they do have sugar. For those folks who don't eat sugar at all these won't work for you. But for those vegans ho do eat a few sweet treats sweetened with sugar, these are very tasty with good fiber content. Link
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Restaurants, Cafes and Delis
This Black-Owned Business Is Bringing Plant-Based 'Soul Food' to Black Communities" on YouTube link
"Vegan Pan Dulce | LATINX Owned Businesses" on YouTube link
Support These 13 BLACK VEGAN RESTAURANTS | LIVEKINDLY" YouTube link
"The 'World's First' vegan Jewish Deli | Bite Size" YouTube link
The Power of Plants with Ben Costanzo of Plant Based Mafia! Italian Vegan Restaurant!" YouTube link
Must Try Iconic New York Food: VEGAN Style! | Fresh Made Bagels" YouTube link
* [Some times I enjoy using old spellings of words and alternative spelling of words used in other countries, it's a part of word "spelling" history. Like oyl (even though the linked info says oyl is obsolete it is not, some folks still call their products that, such as olive oyl & African healing oyl) and catchup is another word that has another spelling, etc).
The next challenge vegan chefs have is how to whole food plant based nutritionize foods with no added sugar, oyl, salt or calcium. Ther are many folks who are whole food plant based who know this is important activism as well as an opportunity for new food creators to make meatless meats with no salt, oyl, sugar or added calcium supplements so that there are options for vegans / whole food plant based folks who don't want to eat foods with any added s.o.s.c. So that there good healthy choices for all the the vegans and whole food plant based folks.
Vegan Activism & People of Various Cultures And Their Experiences Being Plant Based
"Angela Davis on Veganism" "the lack of critical engagement with the food we eat, demonstrates the extent that the commodity form has become the primary way we perceive the world, we don't go further than that ..... that would revolutionary to image the human and non human relations that constitute our environment." YouTube link
"33 Years Vegan! Louis Carl Eagle Warrior Native American Vegan" 80 year old activist, says they feel great and its time to up the protest to stop the slaughter. YouTube link
Why We Should Be Activists" with Genesis Butler" Genesis is a vegan activist since early childhood, she is a teenager now. She persuaded her parents to become vegan. YouTube link
In-depth: Why Black Americans are the fastest-growing vegan demographic in the country" I had no idea that Africa Americans are the fastest growing plant-based diet demographic when I started plant based eating. I think this is very interesting and exciting. YouTube link
Genesis Butler learns more about her uncle Cesar Chavez and their shared fight for a kinder world" Genesis talks about her letter to the Pope to become vegan for 40 days plus more. YouTube link
"Tracye McQuirter | 10,000 Black Vegan Women" YouTube link
"This Doctor's Advice For Going Vegan" Dr Jasmol Sardana YouTube link
"The Surprisingly Black History of Veganism" YouTube link
"Margaret Robinson - Indigenous veganism: Feminist Natives Eat Tofu - A Canadian Indigenous view on veganism. Human Rights are Animal Rights" on YouTube link
Indigenous American "My experience as a vegan, native american and queer animal rights activist - Gerardo Tristan" YouTube link
"Indigenous Veganism" short poetic statements about being vegan YouTube link
The Promise of Human Regeneration: Forever Young" Lab Grown Human Organs and 3D printed human organs
Bioreactor grown human organs with the individual's cells. It's very interesting, it reminds of the bioreactor's used to grow or brew meat from animal cells, except this is human cells. If it works it will end some of the bad reactions some people have had with organ transplants. YouTube https://youtu.be/e0vKOYQUmgg
How Much Do Doctors Actually Know About Nutrition?" This is a very interesting study, it shows that doctors aren't taught nutrition in medical school. YouTube https://youtu.be/J9Ml2mdIkXA
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Erythritol Is More Effective Than Xylitol and Sorbitol in Managing Oral Health Endpoints
"Erythritol Suppresses Harmful Bacteria and Reduces Biofilm (Dental Plaque)
Erythritol was investigated for its potential to inhibit the growth of bacteria in dental plaque (i.e., a biofilm of microbial accumulations, particularly S. mutans" link
Dr. Greger said he has to change his tune now, because he research that shows erythritol to be a very beneficial sweetner with good antioxidants and unlike xylitol and several others it doesn't cause a laxative effect, link to that info:
⚠️⚠️ Erythritol Warning from Dr. Greger new study says it might cause blood clots, so stop using it until more research it done, it's better safe than taking the risk.
⚠️Update above as of March /10/2023 "Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant" YouTube link
Sugar Substitutes And Gut Bacteria
"So far, only saccharin and sucralose (NNSs) and stevia (NS) change the composition of the gut microbiota. By definition, a prebiotic is a nondigestible food ingredient, but some polyols can be absorbed, at least partially, in the small intestine by passive diffusion: however, a number of them, such as isomalt, maltitol, lactitol, and xylitol, can reach the large bowel and increase the numbers of bifidobacteria in humans. Further research on the effects of sweeteners on the composition of the human gut microbiome is necessary."
It would be great to have unsweetened chewing available for folks who don't want any kind of sweeteners. It would be good to have non- flavored or plain and many flavors of unsweeted chewing gum. Article link
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Alert: reoccurring E.coli in Romaine Lettuce. I read a article a while back about romaine lettuce with a firm warning: "don't eat romaine lettuce unless you are certain it is not from Salinas California." I searched for more info recently and found this information: "FDA to Implement Sampling Effort for Lettuce Grown in Salinas Valley, California Between May 2021 thru November 2021", to trace the reoccuring E. coli contamination. more info
FDA's Test of Lettuce Grown In Salinas California results for 2019 2020: "Although the results of the sample testing did not find dangerous Salmonella or E. coli, the FDA said those results did not negate the fact that microbial hazards have repeatedly been “linked to foodborne illnesses associated with romaine lettuce consumption.” link
Is It Safe to Eat Romaine Lettuce (2020)?
In 2018 "Only six cities in California were linked to the current E coli outbreak, according to US FDA. The green leafy vegetables harvested in Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, or Ventura" and now Salinas is added to the list. Link
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Innovations Or Bio-food a human hazard?
With news reports of transforming plastic bottles with E'coli into a food ingredient, vanillin, we certainly aren't being too far out by calling them Sci-Fi foods or a food- hazard, you can eat them and put them on your skin but it's most likely not good for the body. Why not transform the plastic bottles into non edible things like pallets, crates to non-edible supplies etc.?
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Plant-Based Cheese That Melts Coming Soon W/O Coconut Oil
There are some advancements in making plant based cheese that actually melts like cow's cheese and according to several articles, this new plant based cheese will help folks give up dairy cheese. Because it's made to be more like dairy cheese with corn zein and the makers intent to make this cheese without coconut oil. I hope they also make it without adding calcium supplements or large amounts of salt to it. Their forecast release time period is the end of 2021.
"Dr. Alejandro Marangoni, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Aging at Guelph, said in an interview that the university and Motif FoodWorks intend to fully replace coconut oil as the fat of choice in plant-based alternatives." Link
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"Is Air Fried Food Really Healthier? |Talking Point Full Episode"YouTube https://youtu.be/tqcuskaReug
Some opinions on
Lab Grown / Brewed Meat
Questions are being asked about manufacturing brewed meats; Will Lab grown meat producers make the lab grown meat healthier? Will they make lab grown/brewed meat with no fat, no cholesterol? Is it irresponsible not to make lab brewed meat healthier? Now that humans can brew animal based lab grown meat, will the brewing of Plant-Based lab grown meat be soon to follow?
Plant Based Whole Food Doctors Spill The Truth About Lab Grown Meat They don't cover all the questions typed above but they have a interesting discussion about the topic. (*FULL PANEL DISCUSSION*) YouTube https://youtu.be/eFclC-pKGnk
