Scientists perfect plant-based cheeses - stretch, melt, and taste like dairy

Cheese is so interesting because it's cultured, with different bacteria that make it all taste different. It's more like a living thing. Vegan cheese is the stuff of school pizzas. Pasteurized Processed Cheese Food.
Still interesting, and happy for vegans, but coconut oil and pea protein made into an ultraprocessed cheese food doesn't sound healthier than cheese.
- doesn’t sound healthier than cheese
  It is, for the cows.
- If you think most cheeses are not purely industrial foods you're fooling yourself.
  
  I've made cheese, though, it just seems more like food than the ones made from oil. Still - I know this is the vegan sub, and I cook for vegans quite often, I am happy for y'all that it's getting better tasting, for sure.
- You think cheese is HEALTHY? You gonna die young.
  
  Too late for that!
- There are plenty of molded/aged cheeses in higher-end vegan markets, and do-it-yourselfers.
- fair, but it's not like the high saturated fat and high cholesterol levels in dairy based cheese make it really that "healthy" by comparison ... meanwhile, lots of vegans are motivated more by not supporting the poor treatment of cows or by environmental concerns, both of which are solved by vegan cheese.
- Ohh wo/man I totally agree. I just can't eat the real stuff. I blow up, not just in my digestion but physically I have terrible whole body inflammation.
  I like to have fake pizza once or twice a month. This will make it better (once i read the article and taste it).
- Sounds like you've only ever had bad vegan cheese...
  
  There's a lot of it, so yeah. If vegan cheese reaches the point where it's basically indistinguishable from dairy cheese, a lot more people will become vegan. Maybe price is also a factor but most vegan cheese is plain bad in my experience

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- There isnt really any reason why it should be impossible, but yeah i will have to taste it to believe it.
  
  I mean, have you tried any of the cheese alternatives? /s
  I am excited for any and all improvements.
- The headline is click-bait of course, but the plant based cheeses have gotten much better. Some of my family have dairy allergies (not just lactose intolerance) so I have to buy these often and I can confirm that the better brands do actually melt properly now and tasted better. It's still not the same of course, but it is close enough that I can use them in many meals rather than making two batches and no one seems to notice.
- My wife developed lactose intolerance 3-4 years ago and loves cheese. Just within the past couple of months she's begun to find some plant cheeses that are decent. Still no replacement for feta though, unfortunately.
  
  Violife makes a pretty decent feta.
  
  Can you recommend some?
  
  Cooked pressed cheeses like Sbrinz or Parmesan have no lactose. It's livable to only go for those except on a few occasions with the help of lactase pills.
- Fermented vegan cheeses have all the same tastes cause it's the same process I'd recommend to try modern ones they're really great nowadays. Depends of the country of course.
  
  I've tried and will continue to try every one.
  
  I’ve always wondered over why fermented tofu etc. isn’t popular here. It’s super hard to source but it fucks so hard.

Cool development and I'm sure it's good, but ain't no way it tastes like dairy cheese.

Nice! I've been vegan for 25 years, so no longer the best judge of "just like cheese", but I'm stoked at the improvements since I vegan.
- Never been vegan, but would love to see vegan alternatives that are as good (subjectively) as real cheeses. I do try to make an effort to reduce my animal-based food consumption, but cheese is really hard for me to leave behind.
  
  It's a big sticking point for many, and I felt the same way making the transition from vegetarian to vegan. In the end, I found I didn't miss it as much as I thought I would, but that's just my experience.
  I appreciate your sentiments, and your efforts to limit your consumption. I will always applaud someone who eats a vegan diet 5 or 6 days out of 7. If everyone could manage something like that, it would make a huge difference :)

Wow, really cool. Sounds like great progress for the industry. And it's Canadian >.<! Good on AOL for covering this, although they should have used the "grilled cheese pull apart" test for the headline photo (copied below).
The research study was published in Physics of Fluids: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/article-abstract/37/1/011913/3330660/Impact-of-protein-sources-on-the-functionality-of
Here's a popular press summary from the journal's publisher: Just as Gouda: Improving the Quality of Cheese Alternatives

i will take exactly ONE “no thank you bite”

Cool ! I can’t wait to not eat them because they’re still processed food 😂
Seriously though, real cool news for people who are vegan for the animals but less so for their health (even if this is a lot less bad for your health than dairy cheese).

Crap. Drag prefers the taste of vegan cheese. Drag doesn't want it to take like breast cheese
- You'll eat the fake breast cheese and you'll like it