Despite the soy, it offers only a single gram of protein per serving. It has a chalky mouthfeel, an oddly flat flavor and doesn’t spread as well as some others. I have a lot of respect for this groundbreaking brand made from palm oil and non-GMO tofu, but Toffutti Better Than Cream Cheese. Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese is not better than cream cheese. It fortifies its coconut oil and potato starch mixture with calcium. This brand also led the pack in terms of frozen and boxed meals, like macaroni and cheese or pizza, and Daiya’s whole product line is free of other top-eight allergens, such as cashew or soy. It’s widely available, though, and its new formulation is a little bit better in flavor and texture than it used to be. It's got a school glue texture, and the flavor is too mild to be truly evocative of cheese. TODAY Illustration / Daiyaĭaiya admittedly melts very smoothly, but it’s smooth to a fault. Daiya Cheddar-Style Shreds Daiya: the school glue of dairy-free cheese. Its powdered cheese mac is a little bit better, but if you’re looking for that “blue box” taste, keep looking. The yeast extract doesn’t have much in the way of other flavors to round it out, and to make sure it coats properly, it's given it the texture of hair gel - salty, salty hair gel. This is certainly the most convenient of the bunch in terms of offering up a whole entree with very little effort, but the flavor leaves something to be desired, relying mostly on salt. TODAY Illustration / Annie'sĪnnie’s makes several great products and often has led the industry in allergen-friendly versions of frozen and boxed meals. Annie’s Vegan Mac Annie’s Vegan Mac box is the color of yellow you might choose in a crayon to fill in a cartoon drawing of a plastic raincoat. It’s easy to find, though, and a little less expensive than some other brands. It also has a strange sweet flavor, perhaps from the fermented sugar used as a preservative, and it’s not fortified with vitamins or minerals. It doesn’t melt well at all despite its coconut oil base. This brand makes some excellent ice creams, but its shredded cheese has the texture of packing peanuts when cold, and when hot, it has the texture of hot packing peanuts. So Delicious Mozzarella-Style Shreds So Delicious is one of the most common dairy-free brands, but it’s not the most cheese-like. Which ones manage it best? Let’s get to our ranking: the good, the bad and the shredded! 14. Today’s dairy-free cheese market has made real strides in texture and palatability, using all kinds of creative flavorings in addition to the usual yeast extract, like olive or citrus, but it’s nearly impossible to make a single product that will slice, crumble, melt, brown and taste like the real thing. When I occasionally made a dairy-free pizza over the years, I usually skipped the cheese entirely rather than suffer a slice with the texture of stale gum, or pools of tepid goo. The second generation were based on coconut oil and little else, so they melted, but with an unappetizing ooze and meager flavor. With all that cow’s milk has going for it, it’s no wonder the first dairy-free cheeses were a crime against nature: stiff, flavorless and highly melt-resistant. The market for dairy-free cheese has made a big expansion, and big improvements, in the last few years. It’s also available in nonfat, reduced fat and full-fat versions to fit different diet plans. Its nutritional content is hard to beat, too in addition to those proteins, it’s a good source of calcium, vitamin D, the B vitamins and minerals like calcium and phosphorus. The combination of proteins and carbohydrates enable bubbling and browning for perfect pizza and baked pastas. There’s a spectacular array of flavors ranging from mild to smoked to tangy, and textures from spreadable to sturdy, bouncy to creamy. In chemistry terms, the difficulty of replicating the special properties of real dairy ranks somewhere between cold fusion and turning lead into gold. Many of them now on the market are excellent in flavor, texture and nutritional punch.ĭairy-free cheese, though, has historically been much harder to nail down. They’ve come a long way from the hauntingly translucent, watery and nutrient-bare rice milk of the '90s, too. Still, as the incidence of allergies increases and interest in sustainable, vegan and plant-based diets rises, the options have mushroomed - or rather, they’ve hemped, cashewed and legumed. Mexico’s famous cinnamon-spiked rice drink, horchata, has been around for hundreds of years as well. With the incredible ballooning of the plant-based milk market of the last few years, one could be forgiven for thinking it’s a modern oddity, but soy and almond milk have been made in Asia and the Middle East for centuries.
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