what food should be vegan but isn't?

Question

why do companies insist on adding dairy products to dark chocolate? it defeats the whole purpose of dark chocolate.

Answer 1

Things that are parvae should be vegan, but could contain salmon.

Non-dairy creamer should be vegan but usually contains casein. Same with cool-whip.

There should be a vegan canned Tomato Soup made by a vegetarian company. I wanted to buy from a company like Amy's Kitchen, but their Tomato Soups both contain milk. Imagine had a vegan tomato soup, but they're not a vegetarian company, so I just ended up buying Campbells.

Soy cheese should be vegan, but often isn't.

Answer 2

Here is a recipe for vegan milk chocolate..

Soy "Milk" chocolate - 40% cocoa
I have researched and worked pretty hard to develop this recipe. At this point I challenge anyone to make this recipe, give it to a friend, and see if they think it is at all "different". So far, I have had not a single person think it was anything other than "regular" milk chocolate. Oh, and if you were wondering, I have a lot of requests from people with allergies to milk. This recipe is for them. This is made with a full fat soy milk powder called "Better Than Milk". It is more than just soy powder. I will probably start carrying it, but for the time being, check your local health food store.

This formulation will make almost 5 pounds of "40 % cocoa" "Better than Milk" Soy milk chocolate.

Ingredients
10 oz lb Cocoa liqueur from a well flavored cocoa bean - I like Ghana (14 %)
19 oz Cocoa butter (26.5 %)
1 tsp. lecithin
8 oz "Better than Milk" Soy milk powder(11.2%)
33 oz sugar (47.8%) (powdered yourself, the prepowdered has cornstarch that makes the chocolate gummy)

Procedure:
Roast the cocoa beans until just cracking. I do this in a drum roaster, 320 F for 15-20 minutes. I like this bean a little lighter roasted, but roast to your tastes of course. Only you know what you like. You might try 325 for 20-30 minutes for a little roasty flavor.
Crack and winnow the beans - you should have about 30 oz of nibs remaining.
Grind in your Champion juicer. Go ahead and add your cocoa butter and lecithin at this time, mixed with some of the trace husk you have running back through.
Place your Cocoa liqueur and butter mixture in your Santha Wet Grinder. It is very helpful to have your solid ingredients warmed up to at least 120 F, including the Santha drum. Slowly add the sugar and soy milk powder into the melted cocoa liqueur while the Santha is running. Run the Santha until the chocolate is of the smoothness you desire. I find 12-16 hours is about right. Your tastes may vary. If you pre-grind your sugar in a small food processor or coffee grinder (about 2 minutes work), you can usually reduce refining time by 3-4 hours.
After it is out of the Santha temper and mold up your chocolate into the shape of your choice.
Place into a cool, dry place to solidify and then unmold, ususally about 24 hours later to be safe. This can be done in a refrigerator if you wish.
Let the chocolate rest for another 24 hours before eating (well, eat it earlier, but it does benefit from the rest).
http://www.chocolatealchemy.com/recipes_soychocolate.php

Answer 3

Morningstar Farms Scramblers egg replacer. They call it "egg replacer," yet the first ingredient in it is EGG! That kills me.

I also totally agree with Vegan about the soy/rice cheeses. Nine times out of ten they contain casein. Same deal with soy yogurt and ice cream... a lot of times they're not vegan either. Seems counterintuitive to me.

Quorn uses egg too. I like Tofurky more anyway though.

Have you tried vegan carob in place of dark chocolate? Not everyone is a fan, but I recommend it.

Answer 4

Bread! It's quite difficult to find commercially made bread that doesn't have some kind of animal ingredient in it! Look at Subway restaurants as an example, all those different breads they have and the ONLY one is the original Italian loaf!

Answer 5

how about "enriched" products such as cereal, pasta, rice, flour, etc. One thinks they are vegetarian, but I checked with many of the companies and the vitamins used to "enrich" most products are derived from animals, as are most vitamins sold in stores! There are very few vitamins that dont come from an animal source. I agree with you about chocolate. If I want milk chocolate, thats fine, but leave my dark chocolate alone! Enjoy life Brand makes a great chocolate chip that is dairy, soy, and wheat free. Good stuff-I am nibbling on a couple right now.

Answer 6

Lots of candies aren't veg-friendly but should be. You'd think that licorice or gummy worms or Jell-O would be at least vegetarian, but they're not. They all have gelatin.

Answer 7

All chocolate contains at least some milk, so therefore isn't vegan, it wouldn't taste like chocolate if it had no milk. Don't they make soy chocolate where you are?? That tastes the same as regular chocolate to me, and its vegan.

Answer 8

There is NO milk in dark chocolate and it is delicious!