What is Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)? Everything you need to know about TVP
Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP) or Textured Soy Protein (TSP) was one of the first commercially available meat alternatives for vegans across the globe. But what is TVP? Is it healthy? What does it taste like? Where can you buy it? How can you cook with it? Totally Vegan Buzz brings you the ultimate guide. What …
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What is Soya Milk? Is it healthy? Everything you need to know about Soy Milk
Soya milk is widely used as a vegan alternative to dairy milk. But what is soy milk? How is it made? Is it healthy? How does it compare to other plant-based milks such as rice milk and coconut milk? Totally Vegan Buzz brings you the ultimate guide to soya milk. What is soy milk? Soya …
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Retailer Boohoo exposed for advertising animal products as ‘faux fur’
Fashion retailer Boohoo has been warned by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) after it was caught advertising clothes containing animal products as fake fur. A complaint from Humane Society International (HSI) claimed the pom poms on a women’s jumper sold by Boohoo contained animal fur, yet the company was misleading customers by advertising it as …
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Boots launches on-the-go vegan options including plant-based BLT
UK shopping chain Boots has launched three on-the-go vegan meal options to cater for the booming plant-based market. The pharmacy-led shops have introduced a vegan BLT, an all day breakfast vegan sandwich and a vegan buffalo cauliflower salad. Boots UK vitamins expert Parminder Kaur said: “There is no denying that veganism has taken the UK …
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Mark Zuckerberg throws weight behind groundbreaking lab-grown leather company
Mark Zuckerberg has thrown his considerable weight behind vegan biotech business Modern Meadow – a company developing lab-grown cruelty-free leather. The New Jersey-based business is aiming to disrupt the $100 Billion animal leather industry, and has now raised $54m funding since 2014. Modern Meadow’s materials are created with the company’s designed collagen protein, Zoa. According …
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Record-breaking numbers go plant-based for Veganuary 2019
More people than ever are going vegan this month after plant-based charity challenge Veganuary saw explosive popularity in the lead-up to 2019. In the last Sunday of 2018 alone the charity saw 14,000 people pledging to go vegan in January 2019, and the company expects to hit 300,000 participants this year. Veganuary has seen numbers …
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Pharma company AbbVie bans forced swim animal testing in groundbreaking move
Pharma company AbbVie has made a groundbreaking industry move to ban forced swim tests on animals. Forced swimming tests, also known as a behavioural despair test, are used on rodents to assess depression-like symptoms. It involves putting the mice or rats in a glass cylinder filled with water, from which they cannot escape. Abbvie, which …
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James Cameron’s Avatar crew are all going vegan
Oscar-winning director and vegan James Cameron and producer Jon Landau are catering 100% vegan food to the crew members of the upcoming Avatar film series. The fully plant-based meals are in line with their values, and aim to reflect the environmental themes of the movie. Landau said: “We’re doing it based on a plant-based initiative …
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What is Jackfruit? Everything you need to know about Jackfruit
Jackfruit is a plant-based meat substitute often used as a vegan alternative to pulled pork. But what is jackfruit? Is it healthy? What does it taste like? How do you cook it? Totally Vegan Buzz brings you the ultimate guide to jackfruit. What is jackfruit? Jackfruit (artocarpus heterophyllus) is also known as fenne, jakfruit, jack, …
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Meghan Markle encourages Prince Harry to swap his meat for vegies
Meghan Markle has reportedly encouraged Prince Harry to cut down on meat and eat more veggies and fruits. The Duchess of Sussex, who eats mostly vegan meals, reportedly has asked the Duke to make significant changes to his diet. An anonymous Royal insider told The Express: “She has also been encouraging Harry to eat less …
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BBC calculator confirms going vegan is the best way to save the environment
Going vegan is the best way to reduce your carbon footprint, a new BBC food calculator confirms. The calculator indicates the most damaging foods to the environment are meat, dairy, chocolate and coffee. The calculator asks users about their weekly food consumption and calculates how much you contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. According to the …
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Imperfect Avocado vegan ice-cream to launch in Australia
Vegan ice-cream brand Gelavo is to debut in Australia next week with a flavour made with avocados. The business will use blemished and imperfect avocados to make a dairy-free ice cream. Business partners and food technologists Andrew Tilley and Anthea Rodoreda developed the idea three years ago as part of their studies at Curtin University. …
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