Cream substitute
As art cream or vegetable cream (or vegetable fat , English non-dairy cream ) refers to foods and taste or visually as an ingredient in the preparation of food cream are similar, but instead of milk fat other vegetable fats contain. The advantages over real cream can - depending on the area of application and recipe - be better whippability, higher stability or lower price, but also a lower calorie content , since, for example, whippable artificial cream with only 15% fat content can be produced; With such a low fat content, whipped cream would not form a stable foam.
composition
Conventional artificial cream consists of vegetable fats such as coconut oil , hydrogenated palm oil or hydrogenated soybean oil , skimmed milk or skimmed milk powder and water, types of sugar , emulsifiers and other ingredients. The market leader for such products in Germany is Rama Cremefine from Unilever (as of 2013).
For consumers who want or have to do without milk components entirely, there are also purely plant-based variants made from soy or oats , and also based on rice , coconut , almond , nuts or spelled . Also silken tofu can be used as an alternative to conventional cream.
Designations
In most countries, cream substitutes or plant cream are not legally defined terms. At the same time, names for milk and milk products such as cream are often protected. Therefore, the products are used as cuisine or cooking cream (usually liquid, similar to sour cream ), whipped cream (like whipped cream ) Whipped (like whipped cream aerosol ) markets and the like.
user
Cream substitutes are used by vegans , ovo vegetarians and people with lactose intolerance or milk protein allergy , among others . In addition, some cream substitute products are advertised as being cheaper than conventional cream and having a reduced fat content as well as increased heat, acid, alcohol and standing stability.
Furthermore, completely dairy-free plant cream is parve (neutral according to Jewish dietary laws ) and can therefore also be used in kosher cuisine in connection with meaty meals.
Other replacement products
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Bockisch: Dietary Fats and Oils (= Handbook of Food Technology ). Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-5817-5 , p. 627-629 .
- ↑ Klaus Janke: Rama Cremefine . In: Lebensmittel Zeitung . No. 27 , July 5, 2013, ISSN 0947-7527 , p. 62 .
- ↑ Rama Cremefine. Alternative to cream for gastronomy. (No longer available online.) Unilever Food Solutions, archived from the original on June 27, 2015 ; accessed on June 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Fleshy, Milky and Parve. The kosher kitchen. Chabad-Lubavitch Media Center, accessed June 7, 2015 .
