A look at the vegan products I just ordered. Vegan mayo:
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| tastes like real mayo—uncanny |
The macros ought to appear on the nutrition label below:
Per 100 grams: 520 calories (yikes!), 12 g of carbs, 52 g of fat, 1 g of protein. Interestingly, regular mayo has about 22 g of carbs per 100 grams—around twice that of the vegan mayo, making the vegan mayo a clear keto winner here.
Below: vegan "cheddar":
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| Good for the planet! The self-righteousness is strong in this one. |
And here's the nutrition label:
Macros per 100 grams: 277 calories (less than the mayo), 22 g of carbs, 21 g of fat, and strangely for cheese (even if it's really "cheese"), 0 grams of protein. The package weighs 198 grams; there are 10 slices of "cheese" in the package, so each slice is about 20 g. For the per-slice macros, then, divide the numbers by 5: 55.4 calories (half that of regular cheese), 4.4 g carbs, 4.2 g fat. You could plausibly fit a slice or two of this cheese per day into a keto diet. Same with the mayo, I should think, because 100 g of mayo is several heaping tablespoonfuls of it, and it's doubtful you'd need quite that much for, say, two burgers.
I still want to test what happens when the "cheese" is exposed to various forms of heat—microwave, kitchen torch, steam, direct heat from a pan, and an oven's broiler (UK Eng.: the grill, which sounds bizarre to me).
Maybe I missed this in a previous post, but is there a reason for all this experimentation with vegetarian/vegan stuff? I know you follow a low-carb/keto diet, but this seems like a bit of a course change. Just curiosity? Or is it a sign of things to come? Also, how compatible are vegetarian and keto diets? It seems that if you combined the two you would basically end up eating only vegetable products, but without the carbs of grains, etc.
ReplyDeleteI'm not being very keto at the moment, and yeah, I'm just indulging a certain curiosity I've had re: meat substitutes.
ReplyDeleteA keto-vegan diet would probably consist of a lot of leafy greens and cruciferous veggies like broccoli and cauliflower. Boring.
What about legumes? Are they too high in carbohydrates?
ReplyDeleteYeah, legumes are generally not something you eat while on keto.
ReplyDeleteThis article focuses on lentils, but it makes some general remarks about legumes.
Overall, I find the vegan lifestyle to be a bit too risky when it comes to carb consumption. Better to go keto. Just my opinion—your mileage may vary, of course.
Well, I doubt I'm ever going to go either vegan or keto. I was just curious.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I will say that I have known a number of vegetarians who ate absolute trash (scarfing down donuts all the time, etc.). Not eating meat does not equal healthy. I'm not as familiar with keto, but I imagine that simply being keto does not automatically make you healthy.
Interesting! Many fried-doughnut recipes have eggs, so they can't be eaten by strict vegans, although that wouldn't be a problem for ovo-vegetarians.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are ways to overdo keto as well, although for a lot of us, the problem is trying to do keto right because the diet is so fat-heavy, protein-moderate, and carb-stingy. It's the fat-heavy part that's the problem: imagine a fat:protein:carb ratio of 75:20:5.