Food Substitutes To Try This Thanksgiving | SciShow Compilation
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2023
- Just in time for Thanksgiving, this SciShow compilation explores the science behind food substitutes such as applesauce in place of butter, animal-free meat, and artificial sweeteners.
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Original Episodes:
The Truth Behind 'Natural' and 'Artificial' Flavors: How Bad Are They Really?
• The Truth Behind 'Natu...
Why Can Applesauce Replace Butter? And Oil? And Eggs?
• Why Can Applesauce Rep...
Animal-Free Animal Products With Cellular Agriculture
• Animal-Free Animal Pro...
Why Can't We Make a Good Salt Substitute?
• Why Can't We Make a Go...
Are Artificial Sweeteners Bad For You?
• Are Artificial Sweeten...
How Being Obsessed with Health Can Make You Unhealthy
• How Being Obsessed wit...
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THANK YOU for doing this.
As someone who firmly believes that a great way to show love is to feed people things that do not make them sick, who gets sick when eating gluten, soy, and dairy, and who is working toward a vegan diet again (eggs made their way back into my diet due to anemia), I really appreciate showing people how easily some things are substituted.
ALSO: another problem with the natural vs. artificial flavors binary is that you don't know which ones... I am not the only person in my family who has gastrointestinal reactions to aspartame, and small amounts of aspartame can legally be lumped in with other ingredients as "artificial flavors"
And "natural colors" can sometimes be carmel coloring from processed grains, some of which have the gluten to which some of us react.
Good to read that you are working towards a vegan diet. There are other, better, plant based sources of iron instead of eggs, for example lentils, pumpkin seeds, tofu, and spinach. The chickens will appreciate you making the switch 😉
@@jpe1 yes.those had already been the greatest part of my diet. The reason for reincorporating eggs is that I could cook them in a quarter of the time it took to make chickpea pancakes and have 40 years experience doing so, so I can make them on minimal energy with a brain fogged by lack of sleep and inadequate cellular oxygen. If I had someone else to cook for me, I could have maintained the vegan diet while treating anemia, but it just wasn't possible for me once my energy and focus has deteriorated to a certain point and my iron levels were so low I wasn't even absorbing most of the iron I was eating.
It's interesting how people assume that, since certain knowledge made this or that goal possible for them, that the reason another person hasn't been able to reach or sustain that goal is because they are missing that piece of information.
@@marieugorek5917 I made no such assumption. Re-reading my comment I can see how it appears to be a command to you to change, and I'm sorry I wasn't more careful in my phrasing, as my comment was intended as a suggestion for alternatives, not a command.
@@jpe1 thank you. I know that most people making such suggestions are really just trying to help, and don't realize that being told for the 50th time that they can try something they are already doing or have had to stop doing because it was making things worse is often less helpful and can lead to a loss of motivation when they start to feel like they have tried everything and will never find a solution. Probably because people with normally functioning reasonably healthy bodies don't regularly get told 50 times to try the same thing by 50 people.
I could tell the last line was supposed to be light-hearted, and knew it was my own linguistic filters hearing guilt-tripping in it, even as I was tapping down the fight response to the feelings of guilt that arose.. Thank you for taking the time to reflect on the wording that I was misinterpreting; hopefully next time you will now be aware that this can happen and will be able to share this useful information in a way that is more encouraging even for someone who is tired of being advised to do what they are already trying to do.
Pumpkin puree, or any squash puree, can also be used as a 1:1 substitute for oil in some baking recipes. We got a bumper crop of butternut squash this year, and I've been trying to figure out ways to use it up.
But the you miss out on the full-feeling that days provide, that keep you from overeating carbs
@@sheep4521 I'm not sure what you were trying to say. Did you mean the full feeling that fats and oils provide? I'm not suggesting replacing all fats in one's diet with squash puree, I'm saying that it can work in some recipes if you've got some on hand. Squash does happen to be very high in fiber, which gives you a full feeling as well.
Salt doesn't come from a plant or animal, does that make it an artificial flavoring?
I was also wondering the same thing about mushroom seasoning, yeast extract, and other fungal derivatives.
From nature lol
it’s literally a natural mineral 😂
@@cheezuschrist1102whoooooosh!
Nice profile. Surprised to see you didn't get the joke
@@frohnatur9806 i was joking though, double woooosh 😎
✨ As a very tired ED Dietitian, thank you thank you thank you for this compilation!! 😺✌🏻🦃
Okay, I need to go to bed. I read that as "Erectile Dysfunction," and sat here for way too long boggling at that before realizing you meant "Eating Disorder."
Castoreum has more "flavor" molecules than just vanillin and can still be found in some raspberry flavor candies and is regularly used in the more expensive colognes and perfumes to add notes of leather.
In my experience, vanillin works fine in foods where there are lots of other flavours as well, like chocolate flavoured items, but if the main flavour of the food is meant to be vanilla, I can REALLY taste the difference between the only flavour component being vanillin vs all the other subtle compounds from the vanilla bean also being present. It might make sense to figure out how to manufacture some of the other chemicals than the main one that contribute the more subtle effects to vanilla & other flavourings -- I have no objection to artificial flavours in principle, but so many of them just don't taste as good as the natural ones because of the lack of those subtle compounds!
I've tried many times to use applesauce as a substitute for eggs or fat, but it just doesn't cut it. The resultant baked goods are certainly edible, but they don't have as satisfying a texture. I always wonder if people who recommend this substitution maybe don't do a lot of baking themselves...
Agreed with the vanilla one. It might be "nature identical" but it certainly doesn't taste the same. I have some sensory sensitivities and can tell the difference between vanillin and vanilla even when there are lots of other flavours. Needless to say I only buy the real one 😉
7:00 Popcorn lung is also seen with vape juice use in e-cigarette.
because they used to use diacetyl.
most companies don't since the popcorn lung scare in 2016 or so.
Do you have any evidence for this? I know it this idea was floated as a reason for the lung problems associated with vaping marijuana, but I don't think it was ever found to be true.
@@lunaskisses yes, I was just surprised they didn't talk about it in passing
I suddenly feel very good for not dieting in any way and doing little sports. 😂
This would've been good to upload last week. All main dishes would've been cooked already today.
For folks who have to avoid dairy or most dairy products, food subs I appreciate when it can be done.
I learned last week, that coconut oil and/or coconut butter can be used in place of milk/butter. I am seriously happy to find that out because I MISS CAKES!! Though I still can't have delicious cheesecakes 😥
It's just not the same flavor to me without the cream cheese added.
What about vegan cream cheese? Some brands are better than others.
There are a of ways to make a savory cashew nut butter that's a *lot* like cream cheese. You can look up recipes for it online (often called something simple like just "vegan cream cheese")
I also avoid dairy, but not because I'm intolerant or allergic. I have bad cholesterol levels, and coconut butter/oil is not an improvement in that regard.
Virgin Olive oil is the healthiest option.
I can't bake the same cakes.
I have a friend with multiple sclerosis who makes a desert with very little saturated fat. It's a panforte, which is an italian pie with dates, figs, almonds... very delicious. You only need a small slice.
I watched this long enough for you to get a hit. The reason behind this is that I'm like the TV character "Monk", played by Tony Shaloub: I hate change -- when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner. I want the standard Stanford family fare!
Fun and informative video!
I never could understand what the natural flavor was in Dr. Pepper. What is it "naturally" supposed to taste like from nature?
Cherry or plum
Cherry-almond
Old timey licorice I think
The intent was literally to create a new flavour, with no real world analog. It has natural flavour ingredients, but the overall flavour is unique
but regardless, the natural flavor comes from a plant or animal, so I would still like to know what those plant or animals are.@@gingersolacemusic7590
Here in Austria (& Germany) at this time of year, one sees a lot of items flavoured with Lebkuchen spice, the main constituent prt of which is ‘hirschhorn’ or ‘hirschhornsaltz’ (baked, ground dear antler, the main constituent part of which is ammonium bicarbonate, which is an ingredient on some smelling salts recipes. Lebkuchen are, basically, soft, chocolate covered cookies that taste of smelling salts. If you bake lebkuchen at home, with natural hirshhornsaltz, when you open the oven, you get a face full of hot ammonia.
Ammonia? Gross!
Thank you 👍
Not me realizing I forgot to buy applesauce...
Musy try some of these next Thanksgiving here in Australia
At 3:22 Hank gave us the real explanation for some say they like to lick a... What!?... Common. You all hat the same thought.
Flagging this video as needing (not just auto-generated) subtitles. Please help us hard of hearing and deaf folks access your content!! 🥰🤟🏻
Fly amanita wont kill you. Most likely. Other amanitas can but amanita muscaria, pantherina, regalis(maybe more) are all good and psychoactive.
Also, Amanita muscaria can be parboiled for 20 minutes to remove those compounds. This is useful for people who just want to eat it without the other effects. I would add the caveats, I've never done this myself, and you should always get a positive ID before eating any foraged mushroom.
I can definitely tell the difference between real and artificial vanilla and coconut.
@14:45; As a point of question - does that include the lactose in the cow's milk being identical? Or is it essentially "Lab-grown lactose-free cow's milk"?
As someone who's both lactose intolerant and slightly allergic to milk, I'd be curious if it's known to trip those same issues.
It's certainly possible to synthesize lactose, but given how common the sensitivity is, I'm not surprised if they simply don't bother and use a different kind of sugar.
hanks looking so much better. im glad to see he got better from whatever ailed him
he had cancer but that's not the change and yes, he recovered :). This is a compilation, so a lot of the video bits are months or years old
The idea that losing 5 kgs and gaining it back could be a problem seems strange to me. It's such a small amount. I gain and lose 5lbs over weekend without trying.
Kinda like organic vs non orgainc foods. Certification where I live isn't standardised, so all that naturally grown food sold here and shipped overseas, could have just as many pesticides and other chemical treatments (sometimes worse ones) than non organic produce. Which doesn't even factor in whether a commercal grower hasn't just planted their organic crops right next to their normal crops, or whether the company rubber stamping their cert allows for things like G.M.O.'s or a certain percent of standard pesticide usage.
Friend of mine works for FDA. Checks products as they come across the border to make sure that they are not hot for pesticides or other contaminations to try and account for the different standards in other countries (or those who just want to slip stuff through). So there is actually a system in place to try to account for these issues in the US.
The thing about flavors/scents is that the body senses flavors to indicate what the food is and what nutrients are in it. The body's processes think food that tastes like that contains all those nutrients, while they are lost in ultra processed food, or in very low amounts.
ah yes I will be serving bug
Sodium chloride gets unfairly bad press.
Another problem is putting acidic foods in plastic containers.
I wish the FDA would be more transparent about gluten free labels on foods. I hate getting glutened and have a celiac flare. 🙃
Thank you! Can you do a video on gluten free marketing?
Can you PLEASE do a video about how it was discovered that beaver butt tastes like vanilla
As nileblue found out with his lab grade pure cookie it's all contaminates that make it taste good
To be fair to NaCl, there are chemicals that make less of it seem more, including msg, lemon juice, and vinegar to start
Is there a way to know if you’re lacking in certain micronutrients? My diet isn’t very consistent and I often feel like I’m deficient in something but I’m not sure what
Blood tests. You cant surely say what you are lacking just from symptoms only
@@zehragulay2894 dang :/
Odd, because vanilla is the last thing that beaver tastes of.
For me with artificial sugars, not only does it not taste good and it overpowers the taste of what im eating and causes me to swell up like a balloon
Are there no sweeteners you can use other than sugar?
He/she probably meant artificial sweeteners, and probably slightly allergic to it, which cause bloating.
My suggestion change to other artificial sweeteners or natural sweeteners like Stevia. There is plenty options for sweeteners, just test which one taste good enough, since there will be no replacement for real sugars, or skip the entire Sweet taste is also an option.
Sweet is overrated, savory is the GOAT.
@@drextreystevia tastes so nasty to me! one natural substitute i’ve found that has very little aftertaste (depending on the brand), is monkfruit sweetener.
my mom force me to watch this
If they know that the one specific thing doesn't quite make up the whole flavor of something, why don't they try to also make the other aspects of that flavor for their artificial flavoring?
THIS
Frozen Strawberries mixed with frozen Kiwi Strawberry snapple tastes HORRIBLE but the snapple alone and the Strawberries alone taste great
That is... An interesting combination
@amazinggrapes3045 hahaha I made it as a popsicle, bad idea I thought it would taste delicious but nope
So, artificial sweetners always taste bitter to me. am i weird? like aspartame has a very distinct bitter after taste, splenda is harder to detect like this, but overuse definitely can be told. etc. am i weird?
Stevia tastes like cold if not mixed into anything. After that I can't taste it but it gives me an ungodly headache.
Aspartame had the good graces to be way to bitter for me.
Ditto Splenda. Even monkfruit sugar is not for me.
So its not just me that finds the taste of sugar to be superior for one reason or another! yay. i bes not weird! (i mean, i am definitely weird, just not in that way, lol)@@jessicazaytsoff1494
Artificial vanilla doesn’t give the same flavor profile. Natural is better off it’s the focus of the dish. Imitation is fine if it’s part of the flavors.
Wouldn’t food substitutes mean like dietary pills or some sort of food iv drip?
Bioartificial flavors!
Haaaaaaaaank!
It's HANK! WEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'd like the naturally flavoured one, please.
Cochroach skat coated food, coming right up..
uhh... maybe I'll go artificial.
Amanita muscaria, or fly agaric will not kill you.
We should eat according to our lifestyle. Paleo diet was good when we were nomads hunters and agriculture was not started. But now our lifestyle is more concentrated on doing sedantry work which requires different nutrients. Vegan is great for some but alas this diet is incompatible in places where vegetation is sparce like desert or arid areas. Also PPL doing strenuous activity require more protein which vegan diet is insufficient. I would like to see an episode on why we love junk food.
Why didn't you talk about ammonia chloride? It's been used as a salt substitute for hundreds of years, and it's flavor is almost as good.
HANK HAS HAIR!!! I LOVE TO SEE IT
What if the flavor comes from a Fungus?
Bro supports CGP grey
I knew someone who was allergic to artificial vanilla. She could have real vanilla extract though. If they are the same molecularly, how could she only be allergic to the artificial?
perhaps there's some preservative or other chemical used in the artificial brand, even traces from the manufacturing process.
*National Day of Mourning. Never forget. First Nations people have rights, specifically to not have celebrations about atrocities committed against them and their ancestors 💜
23:26 - "Rats aren't people" ... Legally they are. If corporations are people then those who most profit from corporate shenanigans must be people, but they're also rats, therefore, rats are people.
Or ... something along those lines.
Note to self, stay away from castoreum…
I for one would be perfectly happy to eat lentil pate at the big family gathering.
Traditions are nice, but they should never be a rigid prison. Take what you can use from them, be flexible, and enjoy being with people you love.
You can always make those special dishes a different day when you're on your own.
The beetle smashed for red dye, HARD PASSSSS
Talking to a Nigerian friend, kinda discovered the whole world has some kind of yam festival. So, since Thanksgiving is problematic, we're celebrating Yam Fest.
The scaffolding has to move, build a framework, and make it move like a skeleton it's not that hard to figure out.
Never invite vegans to a Thanksgiving day feast. And they must come, let them bring their own vegan dishes.
Have you heard that
Trump's new favorite food is hummus:
he heard it was made of Russian chick pea.
There is a company in Australia using a fungus to completely replace chicken. It has the same taste, texture and smell. It is incredible
Rich people eating actual food, and convincing the stupid to eat bugs and fungus. This timeline is wild.
I thought everything tasted like chicken. lol 🤣
@@minecraftfox4384 nah man. It is a protein excreted by the fungus that has the taste of chicken. I'm part of a company that grows biomass for the company that actually makes the chicken. The fungus is super annoying to grow, but it smells like chicken when being grown and like a Sunday roast when we sterilise the bioreactors.
Quorn mycoprotein based meat substitutes has been big in Europe for 40 years
Certain meats I don't eat because of moral concerns that I have. For me, it nice having some meat alternatives.@@minecraftfox4384
so is salt is artificial then...
other egg substitutes: 1 tbsp flaxmeal in 3 Tbsp warm water, 1 TBSP chia seeds in 3 TBsp warm water, aquafava (the water from boiling or canning garbanzos/chickpeas
How can you replace oil with applesauce? Fry your chips in applesauce?
Substitute in recipes like breads or desserts. 🍞🧁
As a vegan I try to always add something that has calcium, magnesium, extra proteins, I feel good for me and the rest of animals
Ok feed the artificial compounds to your own children and let me stay with the natural version
Is this before or after the native genocide?
Well given the title says "This Thanksgiving", probably after. Odd thing to ask on an educational video about food substitutions.
Fg
Even though you might be right about the fact, that vanillin is vanillin is vanillin, there are different chemicals in the bean, which the reason, why the real deal tastes different. vanillin is just not the same without the traces of other chemicals in there. if somebody was to synthesize the missing ones and add them, we would get a lot closer to the natural flavour. why nobody does is, is beyond me.
Likely cheaper to not do so.
Cheaper. Also most of the people could eat cement and says it tastes good (cos they are not educated to real tastes, so they can't tell the difference.) so.. If you can apriciate the real deal tho, first good for you, second go buy some and make us some cookies :3
He covered that in detail
There are people in this world that have a much more acute/ sensitive sense of taste than the majority of people. I suspect that I am one of those people..... over the years I have commented to friends when eating something about the taste only to get a bizarre look and usually a response to the effect of 'there's no way you could possibly know that' ...and then they check and tell me that I am correct.... my point is you may be one.... most people have trouble in blind taste test to tell them apart, and others don't care so manufacturers don't bother...
This was covered in the video lol.
Yeah nah I'll stick to real food, thanks.
I'll stick with the food my body evolved to eat.
You are free to do that (as long as you aren't harmig others, or - according to some - harming yourself). But sincerely, kindly and out of curiosity - why is this?
I was a vegetarian and then vegan for years, but kept skirting the question of "isn't everything life", including plants, which we now know are very complex organisms. Now I eat a sustainably sourced Paleo type diet, the way we evolved to eat. Turn your back on evolution at your own peril imo
. People are getting sicker and sicker. It doesn't make sense to limit my diet and health. There's nothing inherently moral about plant based diets, when you take into account all the chemical being used to produce them. The insect Armageddon being a case in point. Anyway, each to his own.
Bone marrow coming right up.
I have some most mornings@@IchorX 😃
Imo we are all just like microbiome in a macro biome. Is a dog more important than a carrot? Depends on how you look at it. If you want to get emotional, then sure a dog's cuter than a carrot, but everything is a part of everything else, everything is part of the glorious whole, and carrots are kinda like animals without the legs. Plants have ways of defending themselves and even could be seen to form communities. Don’t believe me? Check out the Secret Life of Plants.and the Secret Life of Trees. The science has come a long way.
As for making the argument that plant based is more environmentally friendlily than growing meat, the answer is nuanced. If you’re talking about animals produced in factory farms, then I’d agree. It’s pure evil imo. But if you’re talking of meat grown ethically, like organics or meat grown using regenerative agriculture principals, then the answer is meat wins hands down. You dismiss the insect Armageddon, but I assure you it’s real just google it. Not too many years back they would be splattered all over your windscreen after a drive. No more. Farm chems used to grow plants definitely are playing a role. Also growing plants for food is destroying our soils, turning healthy soils into dirt. The food coming from that is obviously nutritionally inferior, except when grown ethically. Also animals and the soil have a symbiotic relationship going back millions of years.Animals improve the soil.
Something that never gets talked about is that grass fed, grass finished organic or regen meat is pretty much carbon neutral, which is a good thing hey. A lot of grazing land is not suitable for agriculture. I could ramble on and bore the bejeebers out of you, but suffice to say, the answer, like most things, is nuanced.
cheers .
@googleceo3854
"Companies are trying to come up with ways to make new flavorings that still count as natural under current regulations..."
If you're trying to backdoor something around a regulation, you're already wrong.
There is to much false information in this video. Waaaaay to much.
Just eat real food