Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store

• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Its replacement depends on the product you’re trying to make. Like, they could not remove the cocoa butter from chocolate, for example.

  Which reminds me, someone gave me a bunch of chocolate bars with a large “rainforest alliance” logo on it that had palm oil as the second ingredient. They’re inedible.

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• notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not a choice between palm oil or butter. You can create a vegan pie easily. Yummie yummie.

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  • ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Isn’t palm oil vegan?

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    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It depends on your definition of veganism. There is no animal product in it, but to use it in the quantities we do requires the destruction of a lot of habitat that certain animals require to survive.

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      • Martineski@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, people constantly confuse veganism for a diet.

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    • notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope, it contains bits and pieces of orangutans.

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      • Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That doesn’t sound right. But I don’t know enough about orangutans to dispute it.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Since veganism is mainly about ethicality, i’d guess not.

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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I had an argument about palm oil with a vegan who said that I was against it because I supported Big Dairy…

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        ethicality

        Only when it comes to animals. You can be an almond milk drinking vegan despite the amount of water necessary to make an almond.

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    • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i think so since it comes from a tree

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If only vegetable oils existed…

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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You mean like palm oil?

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Different use cases.

    Fats that are solid ( or at least not kept liquid) are not directly comparable to oils. They fulfill a different function in baked goods. In particular, pie crust with vegetable oil would fail totally. It wouldn’t hold up.

    Mind you, if you don’t object to hydrogenated oils, they can do the job. Yay margarine? But you can’t just dump 10 grams of canola into your biscuits and expect the results to look, taste, or feel like a biscuit. You’d get something, but it wouldn’t be the same.

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Palm oil doesn’t tase good at all so you can just as well use margarine made from sunflower or canola oil.

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